• Vinh Nguyen joined the PhD program at Department of Computer Science and Enginering, Wright State University in the fall 2009.
• She obtained the bachelor degree from Department of Computer Science, HCMC University of Technology, Vietnam in 2007.
• She is working as graduate research assistant in T.cruzi project at Kno.e.sis center, under the guidance of her advisor, Dr. Amit Sheth.
• Her research interests are in the area of Semantic Web, and its applications in the biomedical domain.
• She did the summer internship 2011 at Medical Ontology Research group, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine, NIH.
• Full CV at CV.pdf

Tools

• iExplore provides an interactive graph interface to explore the biomedical knowledge bases.
• OntoCAT is an Ontology-based Customized Annotation Tool enables a domain expert to design the content and generate the form for data input. Collaborator: Matthan Sink.

Publications

• Vinh Nguyen, Olivier Bodenreider, Todd Minning, Amit Sheth.
  The knowledge-driven exploration of integrated biomedical knowledge sources facilitates the generation of new hypotheses.
  In the proceedings of Linked Science, ISWC 2011.(link) (pdf)
• Priti P. Parikh, Todd A. Minning, Vinh Nguyen, Sarasi Lalithsena, Amir H. Asiaee, Satya S. Sahoo, Prashant Doshi, Rick Tarleton, and Amit P. Sheth.
  A Semantic Problem Solving Environment for Integrative Parasite Research: Identification of Intervention Targets for Trypanosoma cruzi.
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011.
• Satya S. Sahoo, Vinh Nguyen, Olivier Bodenreider, Priti Parikh, Todd Minning, Amit P. Sheth.
  A Unified Framework for Managing Provenance Information in Translational Research.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 2011.

Recent Submissions

• Vinh Nguyen, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Olivier Bodenreider, Amit Sheth.
  A Resource-based Discretionary Access Control Model for Linked Datasets.
  9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012).

Posters

• Vinh Nguyen, Satya Sahoo, Priti Parikh, Todd Minning, Brent Weatherly, Flora Logan, Amit Sheth, Rick Tarleton.
  Biomedical Ontologies for Parasite Research.
  ISMB 2010, July 11-13 2010, Boston, MA, USA.
• Vinh Nguyen, Priti Parikh, Satya Sahoo, Amit Sheth.
  Managing provenance information in parasite research
  OCCBIO, Columbus, 6-8 June 2010.

Demos

• Ashutosh Jadhav, Wenbo Wang, Raghava Mutharaju, Pramod Anantharam, Vinh Nguyen, Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Meenakshi Nagarajan, and Ajith Ranabahu.
  Twitris: Socially Influenced Browsing.
  Semantic Web Challenge 2009, 8th International Semantic Web Conference, Oct. 25-29 2009, Washington, DC, USA
• Ashutosh Jadhav, Hemant Purohit, Pavan Kapanipathi, Pramod Ananthram, Ajith Ranabahu, Vinh Nguyen, Pablo Mendes, Alan Gary Smith, Michael Cooney, Amit Sheth.
  'Twitris 2.0 : Semantically Empowered System for Understanding Perceptions From Social Data'
  9th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2010, Shanghai, China, November 7-11, 2010.

Vinh can be reached at vinh at site knoesis.org
Address: 372 Life Sciences lab
Joshi Research Center,
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
Dayton, OH - 45435
(+1 937-775-5217)