Dr. Thanh Tran, Professor in the Practice at Rice University and Technical Fellow at Raytheon (RTX Business), earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2001.

Before joining Rice in 2017 and Raytheon in 2019, he served as an Engineering Technologist at Dell Technologies and Compaq Computer (acquired by HP), Chief Technical Advisor at Halliburton, and CTO/Senior Engineering Manager for New Emerging End Equipment in DSP Systems at Texas Instru-ments. In addition to working with these multinational compa-nies, he was in-volved in four technology startups (Earlens, ReplayTV, Eagle Broadband and X-EMI), one of which was based on his doctoral research.

Dr. Tran, a Senior Member of IEEE and a Full Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, has au-thored two books and published over 25 technical papers. He currently holds 44 issued patents related to signal and power integrity, virtual reality, high-definition video conferencing, personal computer video/audio technologies, oil and gas fi-ber-optic/copper-wire communication, and mixed ana-log/digital ASICs.

He has received numerous prestigious awards, including five Achievement Awards and three Innovators Awards from Ray-theon, the Bronze Excellent@Dell Award, induction into the Texas Instruments Patent Hall of Fame, the Halliburton MVP and Outstanding Contributions to Innovation and Technology Awards, the Compaq Computer Cumulative Patent Award, and the first Entrepreneur/Innovation Award from the Univer-sity of Houston. In 2022, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers.