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Name Dat Thanh Nguyen
Label Biomedical Data Scientist / bioinformatician
Email ndat@utexas.edu
Url https://academic.dattn.com/
Summary Experienced bioinformatician with expertise in statistical genetics, molecular QTL methods, variant prioritization, and deep learning for genomics.

Work

  • 2025.06 - Present

    Oslo, Norway

    Researcher
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
    Research in statistical genetics and ML for integrating genomic and EHR data; focus on psychiatric disorder genetics
    • Statistical genetics
    • Machine/deep learning for genomic + EHR integration
    • Psychiatric disorder genetics
  • 2022.03 - 2025.03

    As, Norway

    Research Fellow
    Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
    Gene regulation via molecular QTLs and chromatin modeling
    • circQTL, atacQTL, eQTL
    • Variant impact prediction & prioritization
    • Chromatin state modeling
  • 2020.06 - 2022.02

    Hanoi, Vietnam

    Bioinformatics Scientist
    Center for Biomedical Informatics, Vingroup Big Data Institute
    SNP array design and PRS benchmarking in Vietnamese populations
    • Population-specific SNP array design
    • 1000 Vietnamese Genomes project
    • PRS benchmarking & imputation
  • 2019.05 - 2020.05

    Stockholm, Sweden

    Visiting Student
    Department of Medical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
    Developed computational methods for circular RNA detection

Education

  • 2022.08 - 2025.05

    Austin, Texas, USA

    Graduated student
    University of Texas at Austin
    Statistics & Data Science
  • 2017.10 - 2020.05

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    Graduated student
    Tel Aviv University
    Plant Genetics
  • 2012.09 - 2016.05

    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Undergraduate student
    University of Science, Vietnam National University
    Molecular Biology & Genetics

Skills

Statistical Genetics / Bioinformatics
Molecular QTL (eQTL, circQTL, atacQTL)
Chromatin modeling
Variant impact prediction
Polygenic risk scoring
Machine Learning / Deep Learning
Genomics integration
Neural network models for biology
Programming & Tools
Python
R
Bash
Nextflow
Git
Docker

Languages

Vietnamese
Native
English
Fluent

Interests

Algorithm / Tool Development
cscQTL
Circall
LmTag
Gene Regulation & Multi-omic Integration
Variant → Chromatin → Expression impact
Applied Machine Learning in Genomics
Deep models
Integration of EHR + genomic data
Other Interests
Photography
Blogging
Travel
Math & Programming