Rate My Professor Manh Tien Tran

Prof. Dr. Manh Tien Tran is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Microsystems Technology (Fachbereich Informatik und Mikrosystemtechnik) at Hochschule Kaiserslautern, University of Applied Sciences, where he has held his position since 2000 at the Zweibrücken campus. Within the field of Computer Science, he specializes in teaching software engineering and programming languages (Softwaretechnik und Programmiersprachen). He serves in important departmental roles, including as a member of the Informatics Examination Board (Prüfungsausschuss Informatik FB IMST) and as Vertrauensprofessor, or faculty ombudsman, for the department. His career trajectory reflects a blend of academic and industry experience. Tran studied computer science at TU Braunschweig and worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Mathematics at the University of Hildesheim from 1987 to 1995. After completing his doctorate (Promotion), he was employed as a software developer at Bosch Blaupunkt and Harman Becker, gaining practical expertise before returning to academia.

Prof. Dr. Manh Tien Tran's current working areas include frameworks, embedded systems, and multicore programming. He has made notable contributions to literature in these domains, co-authoring the book 'Nebenläufige Programmierung mit Java: Konzepte und Programmiermodelle für Multicore-Systeme' with Jörg Hettel, published in 2016 by dpunkt.verlag. This work addresses concepts and programming models for multicore systems using Java. Additionally, he co-authored the article 'Java Goes Parallel' published in Informatik Aktuell in 2017, exploring parallelization frameworks introduced in Java 8. His commitment to excellence in teaching has been recognized through major awards: the Landeslehrpreis Rheinland-Pfalz for the academic year 2014/2015, presented in 2016 by the state minister, and the internal Hochschule Kaiserslautern Lehrpreis in 2019. Furthermore, Prof. Tran is a co-founder of comlet Verteilte Systeme GmbH, alongside Prof. Dr. Manuel Duque-Antón, established approximately 20 years ago to advance distributed systems technologies. Contact details include phone +49 631 3724-5337 and fax +49 631 3724-5313.