Trung is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and systems neuroscience. In particular, he is interested in studying how dynamical modeling approaches can support robust decoding across time, behavioral contexts, and individuals, with applications in speech and motor neuroprostheses.

Trung received his BS from Texas A&M University in 2017, his MS from University of California, Los Angeles in 2020, and his PhD from University of Washington in 2025, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His doctoral research focused on developing computational models leveraging properties of neural dynamics to improve representation learning, cell type identification, and behavior decoding. During his postdoctoral fellowship, he is working to extend these approaches toward scalable neural decoding systems suitable for long-term online deployment.

In his free time, he enjoys hiking, listening to podcasts, and practicing piano.