Hi! I’m Matthew Nguyen, a PhD student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I am currently working under the supervision of Dr. Michael Schatz, developing methods for large-scale long-read metagenomic analyses.

Research

I’ve had the privilege of working with PIs whose guidance has been instrumental throughout my scientific career. At Simon Fraser University, Dr. Leonid Chindelevitch introduced me to the field of bioinformatics, where we developed methods for genomic analyses of bacterial pathogens. Alongside Dr. Maxwell Libbrecht, we developed a method for predicting antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. I also worked on lymphoma genomics and optimizing variant calling with Dr. Ryan Morin. During my M.Sc. at the University of British Columbia, I was advised by Dr. William Hsiao and was part of The Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health, studying the genomic composition of multi-drug resistant E. coli in Qatar.

For my PhD research, I work on applying deep learning approaches for taxonomic classification that are scalable to large amounts of data obtained from long-read metagenomic sequencing.

Background

I grew up in Vancouver, BC (the Canadian one!), and attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School (2015). I obtained my Joint B.Sc. in Computer Science and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Simon Fraser University in 2020. I also received my M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia in 2023.