Son Tran is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon, specializing in research and development in computer vision and multimodal AI. They previously held the position of Principal Applied Scientist at A9.com/Amazon from 2018 to 2025 and worked as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at A9.com from 2014 to 2018, focusing on computer vision and deep learning technologies. Son's earlier experience includes roles at Microsoft as a Senior SDE and as a Chief Scientist at TrustingSocial, among others. They also contributed to academia as a research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, specializing in computer vision, image processing, and object detection.