AI tools for
academic works.

AI for Academic is a small product studio by Tuyến Trần, MD — a pediatric and plastic surgeon at Vinmec International Hospital, Vietnam. It exists because academic work in resource-limited settings is harder than it needs to be, and because AI, used carefully, can close some of that gap.

I wasn't trained to do research — I was trained to operate. When I started publishing, I discovered that most of the tools and workflows in academic publishing were designed for people with support structures I didn't have: protected time, methodological mentors, institutional libraries, integrity-checking subscriptions.

I kept doing research anyway. Because the questions wouldn't leave me alone. And because I came to believe that if AI could make that process less inaccessible — not by replacing judgment, but by making it less opaque — then the work that follows benefits too.

So I started building tools. First for myself, as a clinician-researcher. Then it became clear that other researchers — especially those outside the English-speaking world — were hitting the same walls. The tools here are what came out of it.