Phuong T. Tran was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 1979. He received B.Eng. and M.Eng degrees in electrical engineering from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In 2007, he became a Vietnam Education Foundation Fellow at Purdue University, U.S.A., where he received his M.S. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2013. In 2013, he joined the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam and served as the Vice Dean of Faculty since October 2014. His major interests are in the area of wireless communications and network information theory.