GRANTS
External Grants
NIH NCI: $1,162,264
– Period: 9/15/2023 - 8/31/2026
– PI: Tin Nguyen, MPI: Hung N. Luu
– Personalization of graphical models using multi-omics data for subtype discovery and prognosis
NIH NIGMS: $1,774,807
– Period: 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025
– PI: Cristiana Iosef, Co-I (Auburn University PI): Tin Nguyen
– A web-based platform for robust single-cell analysis, bulk data deconvolution and system-level analysis
NSF CAREER: $490,039
– Period: 07/2022 - 06/2027
– PI: Tin Nguyen
– CAREER: Integrative Pathway Analysis for Cancer Subtyping, Patient Stratification, and Risk Prediction.
NSF CISE Core Program: $600,000
– Period: 07/2022 - 06/2027
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Co-PI: Juli Petereit
– FET: III: Small: Innovative Approaches for Bias Correction and Systems-level Analysis in Integrated Multi-omics Data.
INBRE NOSI: $123,438
– Period: 04/2022 - 03/2023
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Co-PI: Juli Petereit
– NOSI Cloud-based Learning Module
INBRE: $108,000
– Period: 04/2021 - 03/2022
– PI: Tin Nguyen
– Cross-cohort Clustering and Data Integration for Molecular Subtype Identification
INBRE: $107,113
– Period: 04/2020 - 03/2021
– PI: Tin Nguyen
– Cross-cohort Clustering and Data Integration for Molecular Subtype Identification
NASA: $100,000
– Period: 08/2019 - 07/2020
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Co-PI: Hung La
– Multi-cohort, Pathway-level Analysis of Spaceflight Disorders
NSF CSSI: $599,999
– Period: 07/2020 - 06/2023
– PI: David Cantu, Co-PI: Tin Nguyen
– Elements: The ThYme database and identifying representative amino acid sequences that originate thioester-active enzyme families.
NSF 20-504 EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: $5,831,000
– Period: 08/2020 - 07/2024
– PI: Xiaogang Ma, Co-PI (UNR PI): Frederick Harris, Co-PI (UI PI): Barrie Robinson, Co-PI
(Dartmouth PI): Xun Shi, UNR Co-PI: Tin Nguyen
– RII Track-2 FEC: Leveraging Big Data to Improve Prediction of Tick-Borne Disease Patterns and Dynamics.
Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium: $50,000
– Period: 08/2020 - 07/2021
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Co-PI: Lei Yang, Co-PI: Hung La
– Machine Learning and Applied Data Analytics Curriculum Development for UNR College of Engineering.
Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium: $50,000
– Period: 08/2018 - 07/2019
– PI: Hung La, Co-PI: Dave Feil-Seifer, Co-PI: Tin Nguyen
– Robotics and Big Data Curriculum for Undergraduate and Graduate Students of UNR
College of Engineering.
Internal Grants
Research Enhancement Grant: $20,000
– Period: 07/2019 - 06/2020
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Engin Arslan, Mehmet Gunes
Building a Platform for Big Data Storage and High Performance Computing: $31,204
– Period: 01/2019 - 12/2020
– PI: Tin Nguyen, Engin Arslan, Mehmet Gunes
– UNR CSE Differential Fee Award.
AWARDS
GSA 2022 Spring Award (Hung Nguyen) for Outstanding International Graduate Student Scholarship
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GSA 2021 Award (Hung Nguyen) for Graduate Dean Merit
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Third prize (Bang Tran) for graduate students in NV NASA Programs 2021 Virtual Poster Competition
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First prize (Hung Nguyen) for graduate students in NV NASA Programs 2020 Virtual Poster Competition
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Runners up (Bang Tran and Duc Tran) for graduate students in NV NASA Programs 2020 Virtual Poster Competition
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Second prize in sub-challenge 1 of 2019 DREAM Single Cell Signaling in Breast Cancer Challenge
- Predicting the signaling responses of the cell lines to drug treatment at the single-cell level.
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Best paper award in KSE 2019
- Single cell imputation method.
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Second prize in 2018 DREAM Single Cell Transcriptomics Challenge
- Reconstruct the location of single cells in the Drosophila embryo using single-cell transcriptomic data.
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Dean Merit award
- A $13,000 Dean’s scholarship awarded to Duc Tran for a standout graduate school application.
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Second prize in 2016 AstraZeneca-Sanger Combination Drug DREAM Challenge
- Computational approaches for predicting cancer drug combinations and identifying biomarkers of synergy.
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