Member Profile: TS. Nguyen Cuong

Username: cuongnguyen

Contact: cuongnguyen@vnfoundation.org

Home page: http://cnguyen.voer.edu.vn/

Affiliation: The Vietnam Foundation

Location: Vietnam

Author of: 7 Modules and 1 Course

Coauthors: Đỗ Ngọc Minh, Văn Cường Nguyễn

Biography:

Career path

* From 04/2010 to present: OER Program Technology Manager, VNF Executive member

* From 09/2009 to present: Researcher in Department of System and Management Research, Institute of Information Technology, VAST.

* From 01/2010 to 02/2010: Short term Postdoc at Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

* From 02/2009 to 06/2009: Postdoc and lecturer at Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

* From 2004 to 09/2009: Researcher in Brain Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

* From 2002 to 2004: Research assistant in Brain Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea.

* From 2001 to 2002: Programmer in Software development center of Hanoi electronic cooperation, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Fields of Interest

* Datamining in Bioinformatics: By analyzing multiple biological databases including gene location database, gene regulation database, gene function database and gene expression database, we were able to find out positional co-regulation of genes in a genome.

* Modeling and analyzing the cell cycle and its aspects: The physiology of the cell cycle and other aspects such as checkpoint, apoptosis, and cancer are great of my interest. I have been become very interested in how the cell precisely and robustly regulates itself through the cycle and makes crucial decisions against to different environmental stimuli.

* Dynamic analysis of complex systems: The feedback loop plays the crucial roles and is the fundamental building block for biological systems. They not only work alone but also interlock or couple together. My work has suggested that, interlocking two positive feedback loops greatly improve the robustness and controllability of the bistable state which is crucial for decision making systems. My work has also suggested that synchronization of bistable regions could be archived with two positive feedback loops coupled through a common inhibitor.

* Complex Network Analysis: Analyzing complex networks is one of the hot topics, recently. The complex network could be utilized to represent many kind of interaction in reality such as social networks, computers networks, neuronal networks, movie stars networks, knowledge networks, proteins interaction networks, and so on. The aim is to achieve the network community structures and to understand their dynamical behaviors by analyzing synchronization patterns.