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

Nov 20, 2025 🎉 nf-rasqual paper (small size molQTL pipeline) is now online in BMC Genomics!
Nov 03, 2025 🎉 DeepFarm paper (seq2fun for farmed animals) is now published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics!
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. BMC Genomics
    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
    BMC Genomics, 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