Xuan-Tu Tran received a B.Sc. degree in 1999 from Hanoi University of Science and a M.Sc. degree in 2003 from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, all in Electronics Engineering and Communications; and a Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Grenoble INP (in collaboration with the CEA-LETI), France, in Micro Nano Electronics.

He is currently an associate professor, Director of VNU Information Technology Institute - a member university of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and Director of VNU-key Laboratory for Smart Integrated Systems (SISLAB). He is also an adjunct professor of University of Technology Sydney, Australia (2017-2020, 2020-2023). He was an associate professor at the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET) and was Co-Director of the Joint Technology and Innovation, Research Centre (JTIRC) between UTS and VNU from 2017 to 2020. He has worked as a lecturer at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (1999-2003), as a research engineer at the CEA-LETI, MINATEC, France (2003-2008). He was an invited professor at the University Paris-Sud 11, France (2009, 2010, 2015), visiting professor at Grenoble INP in 2011, invited professor at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan.

He is in charge for CoMoSy, VENGME, ReSoNoC, IOTA, ADEN4IOT projects for embedded systems and multimedia applications. He has published more than 100 papers on international conferences and journals. His research interests include design and test of systems-on-chips, networks-on-chips, design-for-testability, asynchronous/synchronous VLSI design, low power techniques, and hardware architectures for multimedia applications.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS), IEEE Solid-State Circuits and Systems (SSCS), member of IEICE, and the Executive Board of the Radio Electronics Association of Vietnam (REV). He serves as Chairman of IEICE Vienam Section, Chairman of IEEE SSCS Vietnam Chapter. He also served as general chair/co-chair and technical/organizing committee member for numerous international conferences (MCSoC, ICICDT, ATC, DAC, ICDV, DELTA, GIIS, ICCE, RIVF, APCCAS, ICCD, ICCAS, HP3C, NICS, APCC, ACOMP, CommandTel, ICGHIT...), Editor and reviewer for many pretigous scientific journals such as IEEE JSSC, IEEE TCAS-I/TCAS-II, IEEE TVLSI, JSA, Microprocessors and Microsystems, etc. He won the Second Prize (the 2nd best) of "Vietnamese Talents Award" in 2015 (Giải thưởng Nhân Tài Đất Việt) and the VNU Scientific Award for the period 2011-2016.