about ME

Software Engineer, AI/ML Educator, and NLP Researcher

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Years
Teaching and Academic Experience
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Citizenship and Learning Videos Published
K+
YouTube Subscribers
Research Projects with CSUEB and UC Faculty

Who I AM

Software Engineer, Educator, & Researcher

I am Anh Tran, a software engineer and NLP researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My work bridges the gap between complex technology and everyday needs. I specialize in building accessible, browser-based tools—from U.S. Citizenship Test prep to practical PDF and QR utilities.

Beyond development, I am deeply committed to education. I teach AI and programming at Laney College, creating beginner-friendly materials to help students—especially those navigating language barriers—succeed in the tech industry.

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My Journey

Bridging the Gap: From Immigrant to AI Researcher

My journey began when I immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam, balancing work in the service industry with part-time studies at Laney College. That experience instilled in me a drive to make education accessible. While earning my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at CSUEB, I founded a digital community helping thousands of Vietnamese immigrants prepare for U.S. citizenship.

Today, I am an AI instructor at Laney College and an active researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP), collaborating with professors across the CSUEB and UC systems. My goal is to leverage AI to build tools that remove barriers for students and immigrants, smoothing the path I once walked myself.

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BACKGROUND

Education

M.S. in Computer Science

CSU East Bay — Dec 2024
GPA 3.9

B.S. in Computer Science

CSU East Bay — May 2023 Summa Cum Laude · GPA 3.98

A.S. in Computer Programming

Laney College — May 2021
Highest Honors · GPA 4.0

BACKGROUND

Experience Snapshot

AI Part-Time Faculty

Laney College

Lead lab sessions for “Introduction to AI” and create step-by-step materials for beginners.

Research Assistant

CSU East Bay

Work on NLP projects with faculty, focusing on large language models and multimodal learning.

Website Administrator

Education & Community Sites

Manage WordPress sites hosted on AWS, including content updates, plugins, and basic security.

Publications & Awards

Publications

Multimodal Disaster-related Tweet Classification with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models – full paper at FAB 2025

Awards & Certifications

Alice & Victor Buencamino Scholar in Computer Science (2023–2024)

High Academic Achievement in Computer Science (2023)

Cisco CCNAv7: Introduction to Networks (2022)

Meet Our Team

Dedicated Educators and Innovators

Team Skip 01

William Baker

Team Skip 02

Oliver Evans

Team Skip 03

Arthur Walker

Team Skip 04

Alexander Roberts

Interested in Working With Me?


If you’d like to collaborate on NLP or education projects, or discuss a software engineering or AI/ML position, I’d be happy to connect.

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