Thi Tran is a PhD candidate in the Field Robotics Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, supervised by Prof. Eleni Kelasidi. Her research focuses on generalizable learning-based manipulation for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems (UVMS), aiming to make autonomous underwater intervention more robust and adaptable across tasks and environments.

She holds an Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Intelligent Field Robotic Systems (IFRoS) from the University of Girona (Spain) and the University of Zagreb (Croatia). During her master's, she worked as a research assistant at ViCOROB Lab (Spain), CoE MarBLE Company (Croatia), and the Ocean Systems Lab at Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), working on UVMS control, autonomous intervention, and LLM-based task planning with behavior trees.