AI & Mathematics — Deakin University

Bao Minh
Tran.

I teach machines to reason over graphs — and I'm chasing brain-like models that move us closer to genuinely human-like AI. Optimization is where it all begins.

Portrait of Bao Minh Tran Open to research & roles
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About

Who / Why

I'm an undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence at Deakin University, driven by curiosity and a deep love of mathematics. My work lives where optimization meets graph neural networks — the geometry of how information flows across structured data.

Increasingly, I'm drawn to neuroscience-inspired models such as brain-like neural networks, which I believe are indispensable to building AI that genuinely resembles human reasoning.

Before university, I trained as a competitive programmer, picking up a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms — and a habit of chasing problems all the way to their mathematical core.

94/100WAM
Deakin University
2027Expected
graduation
3Olympiad
awards
PyTorch·HPCResearch
toolkit
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What I work on

Research interests
Optimization Graph Neural Networks Brain-like Neural Networks Graph Theory Linear & Convex Optimization Distribution Shift / OOD Mathematical Modelling

A full breakdown of the questions I find worth chasing lives on the research page.

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Selected work

2024 — 2026

Out-of-Distribution Data Fitting

Nov 2025 — Feb 2026
ADR Summer Project 2025 · Deakin University
  • Designed splitting strategies that emulate real-world distribution shift.
  • Benchmarked state-of-the-art ML/DL models under shifted data regimes.
PyTorchBenchmarkingOOD
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Linear Programming for Data Science

Jun 2024
PiMA Research Summer Camp 2024
  • Recast regression as optimization, comparing L1 (linear programming) vs L2 (least squares).
  • Evaluated robustness and sensitivity to outliers across both formulations.
SciPyOptimizationRegression
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