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Hoang-Trong M.Tuan

Dept. Bioinformatics & Computational Biology –
George Mason University.
Prince William Campus
10900 University Blvd.
MSN 5B3
Manassas, VA 20110,

contact: thoangtr (at) gmu (dot) edu

Education

PhD student, Aug, 2008 - current

Dept. Bioinformatics & Computational Biology –
George Mason University.

Supervisor: Professor S.Jafri

Ms. of Engineering, March 2006 – Feb 2008
Grad. School of ECE, Chonnam National Univ., S.KOREA
Supervisor: A/Professor Yonggwan Won
Thesis: “The Study of Image Analysis Methods for Two-Dimensional Gel
Electrophoresis”
Bachelor of Engineering, Sept. 2000 – Feb. 2005
Major in CSE, Faculty of CSE, Ho Chi Minh City Univ. of Technology, VIETNAM

Research Interests

  • High performance computing
  • Cardiac signal modelling
  • Computational intelligence (CI): artificial neural networks, pattern classification techniques, digital image processing
  • Bioinformatics: 2D-GE Image Analysis and Protein Spot Matching

Teaching

  • MATH 114 - Calculus II (Fall 09)

Awards

  1. 2009 Travel Grants from VCU attending NHI-NHLBI Workshops –
    Modeling the Heart in 3D
  2. 2009 Travel Grants from George Mason University to AMIA Summit on
    Translational Biology
  3. 2008-2010 Research Assistantship, Dept. of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.
  4. 2009 Travel Grants from VCU attending NHI-NHLBI Workshops Biological and Biomedical signal
  5. 2008-2010 Graduate CommonWealth Outstanding Student Award
  6. 2007-2008 Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Scholarships for Excellent Students
  7. 2006-2008 Research Assistantship, IC@Network Lab, Chonnam National University, S.KOREA
  8. 2006-2008 Scholarship for Master program, Chonnam National University, S.KOREA
  9. 2004 Outstanding student award from American British Tobacco Company
  10. 2002-2005 Scholarship for undergraduate students, Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training, VIETNAM

Work Experience

  1. 2006-2008 Develop protein spot matching alg. ProteomeBase software package
  2. 2005-2006 Software developer at FTS Ltd. Company, Ho Chi Minh city
  3. 2005-2006 Software developer for the university software group

Computer Skills

  • Software Library/Programming Languages: MatLab, C/C++, MFC, LaTeX (pro), HTML, Pascal, SQL, Fortran (pro), R statistics, Perl.
  • Parallel computing: CUDA C, CUDA Fortran, Accelerate Programming Model (APM)
  • Editor: Microsoft Office, Emacs (pro), Texmacs, Vim.
  • Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux-based environment (Ubuntu)

Publication:

 

  • Thach Nguyen, Timothy Yee, Hoang-Trong M.Tuan, Loan Pham, & John Reilly, “Futuristic Applications to Today's management of Cardiovascular Problems” (Book Chapter) – in publishing.
  • Thach Nguyen, Hoang-Trong M. Tuan, Timothy Yee, Cindy Grines, Dayi Hu, & John Reilly, “Practicing Cardiology of the 21st Century” (Book Chapter) – in publishing.
  • Minh-Tuan T.Hoang & Yonggwan Won, “A Marker-free Watershed Approach for 2DGE Protein Spot Segmentations”, International Symposium on Information Technology Convergence, Proceeding IEEE CS (ISITC’07, Nov. 23-24, Jeonju, Korea)
  • Hieu T. Huynh, Nguyen H. Vo, Minh-Tuan T. Hoang & Yonggwan Won, “Outlier Treatment for SLFNs in Classification”,The 5th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Proceeding IEEE Computer Society (ICCSA’2007, Aug. 26-29, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), pg. 104-109
  • Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang & Won, Y. & Yang, H. “Cognitive States Detection in fMRI using incremental PCA”, The 5th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, Proceeding IEEE Computer Society (ICCSA’2007, Aug. 26-29,
    Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), pg.335-341 (Accept rate: 15%).
  • Hieu, T.H. & Nguyen, H.V., Minh-Tuan, T. Hoang & Won, Y. “Performance Enhancement of RBF Networks in Classification by Reducing Effect of Outliers in the
    Training Phase”, Modelling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI’2007, Aug. 16-18, Kitakyushu, Japan), LNAI, Springer-Verlag, pg.341-350.
  • Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang & Hieu, T.H & Nguyen, H.V & Won, Y. “A Robust Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machines”, Proceeding of the 4th Int. Symp. on Neural Networks (ISNN'2007, June 3-07, Nanjing, China), LNCS 4491, Springer-Verlag,
    pg.1077-1086 (Accept rate: 20.3%).
  • Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang & Hieu, T.H & Nguyen, H.V & Kim, J.J & Won, Y. “Twostep Iterative Registration for 2D-Gel Electrophoresis Images”, Proceeding of the 5th
    IEEE Int. Conf. on Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future (RIVF'2007,March 07-09, Ha Noi, Vietnam), pg.274-280 (Accept rate: 29%).
  • Hieu, T.H & Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang & Nguyen, H.V & Kim, J.J & Won, Y. “Outlier Detection with Two-Stage Area-Descent Method for Linear Regression”, Proceeding of the 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Applied Computer Science (ACS’06, December 16-
    18, Tenerife, Spain)
  • Nguyen, H.V & Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang & Hieu, T.H & Kim, J.J & Won, Y. “Iterative Extreme Learning Machine for Single Class Classifier using General Mapping Convergence framework”, Proceeding of the 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Applied Computer Science (ACS’06, December 16-18, Tenerife, Spain)
  • Hieu T.Huynh & Minh-Tuan T.Hoang & Nguyen H.Vo & Won Y. “An Improvement of Outlier Detection in Linear Regression based on Area-Descent”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers Research (Issue 2, Vol. 1, December 2006), pg. 174-180.
  • Nguyen H.Vo & Hieu T.Huynh & Minh-Tuan T.Hoang & Kim J.J & Won Y. “Extension of General Mapping Convergence Framework using Extreme Learning Machine in Single Class Classification”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers Research (Issue 2, Vol. 1, December 2006), pg.102-107.
  • Quan, H. V. & Dung, N.V. & Minh-Tuan, T.Hoang, “A Domain - Specific Crawling Tool for the Internet”, Proceeding of the 2005 International School on Computational Sciences and Engineering: Theory and Applications (COSCI'2005, March 2-4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

 

 

Updated Feb, 2010.

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