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General Information

Full Name Dat Thanh Nguyen
Gender Male
Hometown Tay Ninh province, (southern) Vietnam
Languages Vietnamese, English

Education

  • 2022-.
    Statistics and Data Science
    The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
  • 2017-2020
    Plant Genetics
    Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2012-2016
    Molecular Biology and Genetics
    University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Experience/employment

  • 2/2022-.
    Research Fellow
    Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
    • Gene regulation with molecular QTL [circQTL, atacQTL, eQTL].
    • Variant impact prediction and prioritization.
    • Chromatin state modeling.
  • 6/2020 - 1/2022
    Bioinformatics Scientist
    Center for Biomedical Informatics, Vingroup Big Data Insititute, Hanoi, Vietnam
    • Developing method for SNP array desgins and apply for the Vietnamese population
    • Benchmarking human SNP array for polygenic risk scores analyses
    • The 1000 Vietnamese genome project working group
  • 5/2019 - 5/2020
    Visiting Student
    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Open Source Projects

  • 2019-2020
    Circall
    • A fast and accurate methodology for discovery of circular RNAs from paired-end RNA-sequencing data.
  • 2020-2021
    LmTag
    • Functional-enrichment and imputation-aware tag SNP selection method for population-specific genotyping array desgin.

Honors and Awards

  • 2017
    • International MSc program in Plant Sciences and Food Security scholarship - Tel Aviv Univeristy
  • 2019
    • Scholarship for research associated master student - Karolinska Institutet

Academic Interests

  • Bioinformatic algorithm development
    • Method for identifying circular RNAs
    • Method for desgining genotyping SNP array
  • Gene regulation/ multi-omic data analytics
    • How genetic variants impact phenotype via chromatine accessibility, mRNA, and circular RNA expressions?
  • Applied machine learning
    • Modeling chromatine accessibility
    • Variant impact/ causal variant prediction

Other Interests

  • Photography
  • Blogging
  • Travel
  • Learning math and programming!