Work Experience

03/2022 - current Camera & Depth, Signal Processing Team - Meta Platforms, Inc. Senior Data Analyst/Data Engineer (Contract)
06/2019 - 03/2022 Freelance Data Analyst/Data Scientist
03/2017 - 11/2018 University of Science, VNUHCM, Vietnam Lecturer - Bioinformatics
06/2013 - 11/2016 LucatStudios Inc. Assisted Product management (mobile apps)
06/2013 - 11/2016 Consultant Biological data analysis & scientific illustration
01/2009 - 12/2012 Dr. Gary Stacey Lab, University of Missouri Research assistance - Genomics and proteomics research
05/2009 - 07/2009 Pacific Northwestern National Lab, Department of Energy Research internship - Mass spectrometry research
08/2006 - 12/2008 Digital Biology Lab, University of Missouri Research assistance - Protein structure prediction
06/2005 - 07/2006 University of Science, VNUHCM, Vietnam Research & teaching assistance - Biotechnology

Education

2006 - 2012
Ph.D. in Plant, Insect & Microbial Science
University of Missouri, USA
2001 - 2005
Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology
University of Science, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Certifications

Udacity

  • Data Engineering Nanodegree (in progress of completion)
  • Data Analyst Nanodegree (2020)

Coursera

The Deep Learning Specialization - by deeplearning.ai (09/2019)

  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Sequence Models
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

TensorFlow in Practice Specialization (07/2019)

Machine Learning - by Stanford University (06/2019)

Genomic Data Science - by Johns Hopkins University (04/2019)

  • Python for Genomic Data Science
  • Algorithms for DNA Sequencing
  • Command Line Tools for Genomic Data Science
  • Genomic Data Science with Galaxy
  • Bioconductor for Genomic Data Science
  • Statistics for Genomic Data Science

Publications

1. Brechenmacher, L., Nguyen, T.H.N., Zhang, N., Jun, T.H., Xu, D., Mian, M.A., Stacey, G. (2015) Identification of soybean proteins and genes differentially regulated in near isogenic lines differing in resistance to aphid infestation. J Proteome Res., 14 (10): 4137-4146.
2. Nguyen, T.H.N., Brechenmacher, L. , Aldrich, J., Clauss, T., Gritsenko, M., Hixson, K., Libault, M., Tanaka, K., Wang, J., Yao, Q., Paša-Tolić, L., Xu, D., Nguyen, H.T., Stacey, G. (2012) Quantitative Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Soybean Root Hairs in Response to Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Mol. Cell Proteomics, 11: 10.1074/mcp.M112.018028, 1–16.
3. Brechenmacher, L., Nguyen, T.H.N., Hixson, K., Libault, M., Aldrich, J., Pasa-Tolic, L., Stacey, G. (2012) Identification of soybean proteins from a single cell type: the root hair. Proteomics. 12(22):3365-73. doi: 10.1002/pmic.201200160.
4. Wan, J., Tanaka, K., Zhang, X.C., Son, G., Brechenmacher, L., Nguyen, T.H.N, Stacey, G. (2012) LYK4, a lysin motif receptor-like kinase, is important for chitin signaling and plant innate immunity in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 160(1): 396-406.
5. Lopez, O.V., Thibivilliers, S., Qiu, J., Xu, W.W., Nguyen, T.H.N, Libault, M., Le, M.H., Goldberg, R., Hill, C., Hartman, G., Diers, B., Stacey, G. (2011) Identification of quantitative trait loci controlling gene expression during the innate immunity response of soybean. Plant Physiol. 157(4):1975-86.
6. Tanaka, K., Nguyen, T.H.N., and Stacey, G. (2011) Enzymatic role for soybean ecto-apyrase in nodulation. Plant Signal. Behav. 6 (7): 1034-1036.
7. Brechenmacher, L., Lee, J., Sachdev, S., Song, Z., Nguyen, T.H.N., Joshi, T., Oehrle, N., Libault, M., Mooney, B., Xu, D., Cooper, B., and Stacey, G. (2009) Establishment of a protein reference map for soybean root hair cells. Plant Physiol. 149: 670-682.

Selected Awards

05/2009
PNNL Alternate Sponsored Fellowship (ASF)
ASF program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Department of Energy, Richland, WA.
10/2008
Outstanding Scientific Seminar
Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri. Award for the plant sciences graduate seminar entitled “Systems biology and its potential application to the study of plant-microbe interactions”.
08/2006
Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship 2006
5-year Ph.D. program scholarship in the U.S. One of 38 fellows selected from more than 1,700 candidates in Vietnam in 2006.