Dat Thanh Nguyen

Bio x AI Researcher | Understanding nature with data | MSDS, Bioinformatics PhD

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An experienced bioinformatician/biomedical data scientist with solid backgrounds in genetics, computer science, and statistics.

I hold a research fellow position based in Oslo, Norway, where I conduct research in statistical and machine learning methods for human genetics, focusing on psychiatric disorders.

Past projects involve gene regulation inference, deep learning methods for genomics, circular RNA, population-specific SNP array designs, and polygenic risk scores, where I was the lead developer of several high-performance computational methods.

Contact for collaboration: ndat(at)utexas(dot)edu

news

Jun 01, 2025 Excited to join the Center of Precision Psychiatry at Uinveristy of Oslo to work on machine learning and statistical methods for human genetics :sparkles: :sparkles: :sparkles: .
May 10, 2025 Completed graduated degree in Statistics and Data Science at The University of Texas at Austin :sparkles: :sparkles:
Apr 22, 2025 I finished PhD defense :sparkles: . Thesis: Improved computational methods for regulatory genomic inference
Dec 31, 2023 It is time to wrap up 2023! This is a preprint about natural language inference - which is my final project work of the graduate NLP course at UT Austin in Fall 2023.
Oct 31, 2023 cscQTL is out in Bioinformatics :sparkles:
Nov 04, 2022 Happy to be an co-author of PRSUP paper. It is publised at Briefings in Bioinformatics.
Oct 20, 2022 Another paper is publised at Scientific Reports :sparkles:
Jul 02, 2022 LmTag algorithm paper is published at Briefings in Bioinformatics :sparkles:
May 25, 2022 Excited to be admited to the graduate program in Statistics and Data Science at The University of Texas at Austin :sparkles: :sparkles:
Dec 28, 2021 My KSE conference paper is published.
Oct 14, 2021 My first paper is published at BMC Bioinformatics :sparkles:
Jun 27, 2020 Accepted position as a bioinformatics scientist at Vingroup Big Data Insititute :sparkles:
May 12, 2020 MSc thesis defense :o: I am now gradudated from the Tel Aviv Univeristy, Israel! grateful to all of my friends, teachers! :sparkles:
May 08, 2019 My research career begins with an MSc thesis project in Bioinformatics at Karolinska Insititute, Sweden :sparkles: :sparkles: :smile: :smile:

selected publications

  1. bioRxiv
    A Nextflow pipeline for molecular quantitative trait loci mapping in small sample size datasets with an application in Atlantic salmon
    Dat Thanh Nguyen, Simen R Sandve, Sigbjørn Lien, and 1 more author
    bioRxiv, 2025
  2. NAR Bioinformatics
    Sequence-based chromatin activity modeling and regulatory impact prediction of genetic variants in farmed animals using deep learning
    Dat Thanh Nguyen, Tim Martin Knutsen, Simen R Sandve, and 2 more authors
    NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2025
  3. Bioinformatics
    An integrative pipeline for circular RNA quantitative trait locus discovery with application in human T cells
    Dat Thanh Nguyen
    Bioinformatics, 2023
  4. Brief Bioinfor
    LmTag: functional-enrichment and imputation-aware tag SNP selection for population-specific genotyping arrays
    Dat Thanh Nguyen, Quan Hoang Nguyen, Nguyen Thuy Duong, and 1 more author
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022
  5. BMC Bioinfor
    Circall: fast and accurate methodology for discovery of circular RNAs from paired-end RNA-sequencing data
    Dat Thanh Nguyen, Quang Thinh Trac, Thi-Hau Nguyen, and 4 more authors
    BMC bioinformatics, 2021
  6. Scie Reports
    A comprehensive evaluation of polygenic score and genotype imputation performances of human SNP arrays in diverse populations
    Dat Thanh Nguyen, H.H Trang Tran, Hoang Mai Tran, and 5 more authors
    Scientific Reports, 2022