Thi Nguyen, PhD

Data Scientist @ Burnet Institute

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About

Dr. Thi Nguyen is a public health researcher and data scientist whose research lies at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and health data science. His work includes developing predictive models for disease risk, extracting structured information from clinical narratives, and applying statistical and ML methods to large-scale healthcare datasets. He has extensive experience in Python and R and is committed to reproducible, ethical, and computationally efficient approaches to AI in healthcare.

Experience

  • Burnet Institute (Hybrid)
    • Data Scientist
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Data Manager
      Nov 2019 - Nov 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Research Collaborator and Casual Academic at La Trobe University
    Jan 2019 - Nov 2019 · 11 mos

    • Research and developing deep learning/machine learning techniques for predicting physiological traits to help farmers improving land use productively. • Implementing visualization tools for sport analytics • Analysis of drug-drug interactions using Australian Health data • Managing 6 software teams for Information Technology Project Subject

  • Research Fellow at National University of Singapore
    Jul 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Projects: • Natural Language Processing for infectious disease surveillance • A Comprehensive Infrastructure for Data-intensive Applications and Analytics Text mining on electronic medical records; Health Informatics; Big Data Analytics

  • PhD Researcher at La Trobe University
    Jan 2009 - May 2013 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Project: Efficient Databases for Flash Memory Responsibilities and Duties: • Research and software development on flash databases Techniques: • Database indexing, flash memory, SVM, clustering, software development • Programming languages: Java, C/C++, Python Key Achievements: • Published 4 top ranked journal and conference papers