Le-Nam Tran is a Funded Investigator at CONNECT in University College Dublin.

Le-Nam Tran received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in radio engineering from Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to this, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Maynooth University, Ireland. From 2010 to 2014, he had held postdoctoral positions at the Signal Processing Laboratory, ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland.

His research interests are mainly on applications of optimization techniques for wireless communications design. Some recent topics include energyefficient communications, physical layer security, cloud radio access networks, cell-free massive MIMO, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. He has published more than 110 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He was a recipient of the Career Development Award from Science Foundation Ireland in 2018. He has served on the Technical Program Committees of several IEEE major conferences. He is an Associate Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He was the Symposium Co-Chair of Cognitive Computing and Networking Symposium of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC 2016) and was the Co-Chair of the Workshop on Scalable Massive MIMO Technologies for Beyond 5G at IEEE ICC 2020. He is a co-recipient of an IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 Best Paper Award.