TEACHING

University of Nevada, Reno

• CS 482/682 Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2022)

• CS 365 Mathematics of Computer Science (Fall 2020)

• CS 461/661 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics (Fall 2020, Fall 2021)

• CS 791 Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)

• CS 491/691 Introduction to Bioinformatics (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

Wayne State University

• CSC 3110 Algorithm Design and Analysis (Spring/Summer 2016)

ACADEMIC ADVISING

PhD students

• Duc Tran (Fall 2018 – present)
  – Defended dissertation proposal in May 2022
  – Expected to graduate by December 2022
  

• Hung Nguyen (Spring 2018 – present)
  – Defended dissertation proposal in May 2022
  – Expected to graduate by May 2023
  

• Bang Tran (Fall 2018 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2024
  

• Negar Maghsoudi (Spring 2021 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2026
  

• Ha Nguyen (Spring 2021 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2026
  

• Augustine Ofoegbu (Spring 2022 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2027
  

• Dao Tran (Spring 2022 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2027
  

• Na Ngo (Spring 2022 – present)
  – Expected to graduate by May 2026
  

Master students

• Alena Lee (Fall 2017 - Summer 2018)
  – MS in Biotechnology
  – Graduated in August 2018

• Sangam Shrestha (Spring 2018 – Fall 2019)
  – MS in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Graduated in December 2019

• Monikrishna Roy (Fall 2020 – Spring 2022)
  – MS in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Graduated in May 2022

Committee Member

• Abdullah Al-Mamun (Spring 2022 – present)
  – PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Dongfang Zhao
  – Defended dissertation proposal in April 2022
  

• Brian Prince (Spring 2022 – present)
  – PhD Candidate in Biochemistry
  – Advisor: Claudia Rueckert
  – Defended dissertation proposal in April 2022
  

• Amruta Kale (Spring 2022 – present)
  – PhD Candidate in Computer Science, University of Idaho
  – Advisor: Xiaogang Ma, University of Idaho
  – Defended dissertation proposal in April 2022
  

• Jun Yi (Fall 2021 – present)
  – PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Feng Yan
  – Defended dissertation proposal in January 2022
  

• Mustafa Solmaz (Spring 2020 – present)
  – PhD Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Mehmet Gunes
  – Defended dissertation proposal in May 2020
  

• Ahmed Alhussen (Spring 2020 – Fall 2020)
  – PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Engin Arslan
  – Graduated in December 2020
  

• Ashutosh Singandhupe (Spring 2019 – Fall 2021)
  – PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Hung La
  – Graduated in December 2021
  

• Yan Yan (Fall 2017 – Spring 2019)
  – PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
  – Advisor: Frederick Harris, Jr.
  

Undergraduate students

• Erik Marsh (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
  
• Ellas Brezine (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022)
  
• Monte McRae (Spring 2020 – Spring 2022)
  
• Jesus Casillas (Spring 2020 – Spring 2021)
  
• Shawn Ray (Spring 2020 – Spring 2021)
  
• Nicholas Mason (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020)
  
• Brian Marks (Fall 2017 – Spring 2019)
  
• Nina Hees (Fall 2017 – Fall 2018)
  
• Adam Montano (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018)
  
• Joshua Pike (Fall 2017 – Fall 2018)
  
• Dalton Navalta (Fall 2017 – Fall 2018)
  

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Department

• Cyber Security Faculty Search Committee, Spring 2022
• Member, CSE Graduate Committee, 2017 - present
• Member, Colloquium Committee, 2017 - present
• CSE Representative, Nevada Bound, 2017 - present

College & University

• Bioinformatics Analyst Search Committee, Spring 2022
• Research Grant Coordinator Search Committee, Fall 2021
• Bioinformatics Analyst Search Committee, Fall 2020
• Judge, Graduate Student Association Poster Symposium, Fall 2017
• Judge, Graduate Student Association Paper Competition, Spring 2018
• CSE Representative, Engineering Reception, Spring 2018

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND TRAINING

• NIH BDMA Review Panel, 2021
• NSF CISE IIS Review Panel, 2020.
• Conference Program Committee
  – ISMCO (2020 – present)
  – BICOB (2019 – present)
  – ISMCO (2019 – present)
  – SEDE (2019, 2020)
  – ITNG HCI (2022)
  
• Bioinformatics Session Chair, KSE (2019 – present)
• Local Arrangement Chair, ISMCO (2019, 2020)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Coral Academy of Science, K-12 Charter School in Reno (2018 - present)
• Organizer, Bioinformatics Workshops for Nevada’s Undergraduates (2021, 2022)
• Vice president (2015 – 2016), ACM-W student chapter, Wayne State University
• Member, Engineering Student Faculty Board (2015 – 2016), ACM and ACM-W student chapter, Wayne State University
• Journal Reviewer – Nature Portfolio Journals: Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Communications Biology
  – Oxford Press Journals: Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Advances, Briefings in Functional Genomics
  – BioMed Central Journals: Genome Biology, Journal of Translational Medicine, BMC Bioinformatics
  – Frontiers Journals: Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Oncology, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  – MDPI Journals: Cells, Data, Applied Sciences, Diagnostics
  – Cell Reports
  – Neural Processing Letters
  – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  – Cancer Research
  – PLOS Journals: PLOS One, PLOS Computational Biology
  – Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics
  – F1000Research
  
• Conference Reviewer:
  – BICOB (2019 – present)
  – KSE (2019 – present)
  – SEDE (2019 – present)
  – ISMCO (2019 – present)
  – ICIT (2017 – present)
  – BIBM (2012 – present)
  
• NSF I-Corps program (Spring 2015): an intensive training program to help researchers transform research ideas and technical innovations into commercializable and marketable opportunities. Through extensive customer engagement, researchers are able to validate the sustainability of their start-up business.

POSTER AND PRESENTATION

scCAN: A Single cell clustering method using autoencoder and network fusion

Authors: Bang Tran, Duc Tran, Ha Nguyen and Tin Nguyen

Poster

DSCC: disease subtyping using community detection from consensus network

Authors: Hung Nguyen, Monikrishna Roy, Ha Nguyen and Tin Nguyen

Poster

Bias-aware consensus perturbation pathway analysis

Authors: Hung Nguyen, Duc Tran and Tin Nguyen

Poster

Single-Cell analysis using hierarchical autoencoder

Authors: Duc Tran, Hung Nguyen, Bang Tran and Tin Nguyen

Poster

RIA: a novel Regression-based Imputation Approach for single-cell RNA sequencing

Authors: Bang Tran, Duc Tran, Hung Nguyen, Nam Sy Vo and Tin Nguyen

Slides, Poster

MGKA: A genetic algorithm-based clustering technique for genomic data

Authors: Hung Nguyen, Sushil J. Louis, Tin Nguyen

Poster

PINSPlus: a fast yet efficient tool for disease subtype discovery using multi-omics data

Authors: Hung Nguyen, Sangam Shrestha and Tin Nguyen

Poster

PINSPlus: a novel tool for molecular subtyping and multi-omics integration

Authors: Hung Nguyen, Sangam Shrestha and Tin Nguyen

Poster