Quang Van Tran

Biography

Quang Van Tran is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering with a focus on Building Performance at the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He is a researcher in the Climate Sensitive Design Lab (CSDL) and serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P).

Research Interests

Quang is currently developing an integrated CFD-DRL framework to optimize urban cooling strategies and mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect. His research interests focus on data-driven modeling techniques that integrate numerical simulation with machine learning models for urban environments. 

Work Experience

• Research Assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio (2025 – present)

• Research Assistant at Kyung Hee University (2021 – 2023) 

• Environmental Engineer at Srithai (Vietnam) Company Limited (2019 – 2021) 

• Environmental Engineer at Vietnam NOK Company Limited (2017 – 2019)

Education

• PhD in Civil Engineering (Building Performance Track) 2025 – present  

  The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States 

• MEng in Architectural Engineering 2021 – 2023  

  Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea 

• B.E in Environmental Engineering 2013 – 2017 

  Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam.