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