# Duan Tran

> Software Engineer at Amazon Search ML Platform

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/duan

PhD in Computer Science (University of Illinois)
- Major: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

Specialties:
- Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Text Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Startup, Technology

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TurbineOne
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Working on LLM Inference (Amazon Rufus): multi prompting, agent platform

### Software Engineer @ Cisco Tetration Analytics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Machine Learning and NLP Engineer @ InboxVudu
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
AI powered email assistant to help solve email overload. Working on backend machine learning algorithms and mobile/watch apps.

### Machine Learning and NLP Engineer @ Parakweet, Inc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Develop algorithmic software to make sense of social network data (Twitter, Facebook) using text analysis, NLP and machine learning techniques.

- Architected and wrote Relation Extraction engine
- Architected and implemented Activity Detection engine
- Architected and developed Entity Detection engine
- Developed short text classification engine
- Now known as InboxVudu

### Machine Learning and NLP Engineer @ BookVibe
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Instant social graph-powered book recommendations. Developed algorithmic software for BookVibe.com book recommendations from Twitter and Facebook stream data. In particular:
- Built entity detection and behavior detection for books.
- Built user profiling and Twitter influencer detection to improve book recommendations.

### Research Assistant @ UIUC AI Labs
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 | AI Computer Vision Labs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Worked on various topics on detecting and parsing articulated objects (such as people) and recognizing human actions. 
- Developed effective approximation algorithms in doing inference and learning on highly structured interdependent representations of human body parts (torso, head, arms, legs) to learn to localize body parts.

### Research Intern @ IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Hawthorne, NY
- Developed visual matching algorithms to better categorize large scale objects in retail stores to prevent ticket switching at self-checkouts. 
- Collaboratively worked on the project of finding people in surveillance videos based on human attributes.

### Lecturer @ University of Sciences
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 | University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Taught courses: C/C++ programming, Data Structure, Building Web Applications.


## Education
### PhD in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Science, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Science, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ddtran2

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Last updated: 2026-04-10