Research
Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research
- Urban Interfaces Lab (part of the Design Lab).
- PhD Supervisors: Dr Callum Parker, Dr Martin Tomitsch, Dr Marius Hoggenmüller, and Dr Luke Hespanhol.
- PhD Thesis: Designing Scalable Interaction Between Autonomous Vehicles and Pedestrians
- Current Postdoc Project: ARC Discovery Projects 2022 Shared-Space Interactions between People and Autonomous Vehicles.
Publications
I publish in HCI conferences like AutoUI and CHI, and journals such as IEEE Transactions. For a full list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile. If any paper is not available as open access, please contact me at tram.tran[at]sydney.edu.au for a copy.
Academic Services
Since 2020, many have kindly reviewed my papers, therefore, I’ve committed to reviewing one paper in return for each review I receive. #reviews received: 184, #reviews given: 153.
Committee.
- CHI '26 Papers Associate Chair
- AutoUI '24 '25 Papers Associate Chair
- DIS '25 Papers Associate Chair
- CHI '23 '24 '25 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Associate Chair
- CHI '24 Video Showcase Associate Chair
Conference Reviewer.
- IEEE ITSC '23 '24 '25: Papers
- ISMAR '24 '25
- AutoUI '22 '23 '24 '25: Papers and LBW
- DIS '23 '24 '25: Papers, Pictorials
- CHI '23 '24 '25: Papers, LBW, alt.chi, videos (3 Special Recognitions 🌻)
- IEEE Activity and Behavior Computing '25 (Elite Reviewer Award 🏅)
- IUI '24 '25: Posters and Demos
- HRI '23 '25: Papers and LBW
- SUI '24 Papers
- CHI Play '24: WIP
- NordiCHI '24: Papers
- CSCW '24: Papers and Posters
- UbiComp/ISWC '23 '24: Posters
- MobileHCI '23 '24: Papers and LBW
- OzCHI '20 '22 '23 '24: Papers, Short Papers, LBW
- IEEE IV '24: Papers
- ATRF '23: Papers
- IEEE VR '23: Papers
Journal Reviewer.
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2025
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Taylor & Francis) 2023, 2024, 2025
- IMWUT 2024
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2024
- Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2024
- Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 2024
- Frontiers in Psychology 2022
Conference Organising.
- Program Chair: OzCHI '25
- Workshop Co-Chair: AutoUI '25
- SV Co-Chair: OzCHI '24
- Student Volunteer (SV): OzCHI '20, DIS '21, AutoUI '21, IUI '23, CHI '23
Other
- SIGCHI Sydney Chapter Event Chair, term 2024-2025
Teaching and Supervision
Academic Tutor (aka Teaching Assistant)
- IDEA9105 Interface Design (S1/2-2021, S1-2022, S1/2-2023, S1-2024, S1-2025)
- IDEA9201 IDEA Laboratory - Designing AR/VR Experiences (S2-2021, S2-2023)
- COMP5427 Usability Engineering (S2-2019)
Research Supervision (Master's Students)
- Haochen Zhang (S2-2023) co-supervised with Yiyuan Wang
- Leanna Yue (S2-2024) co-supervised with Xinyan Yu and Marius Hoggenmüller
- Leah Luo (S2-2024) co-supervised with Xinyan Yu and Marius Hoggenmüller
- Ria Agnihotri (S1-2025)
Awards
PhD
- 2023 - ACM Gary Marsden Travel Awards (to CHI'23 Hamburg)
- 2022, 2023 - Research Dissemination, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
- 2022, 2023 - HDR Support Scheme, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
- 2022 - Postgraduate Research Support Scheme, The University of Sydney
- 2020 - Research Training Program Scholarships, Australian Government (3.5 years)
Master
- 2019 - Dean's List, School of Architecture, Design and Planning
- 2019 - Vice Chancellor's Global Mobility Scholarship, The University of Sydney
- 2018 - Postgraduate Honour Roll, School of Computer Science