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Dr. Duy Duong-Tran is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The United States Naval Academy (USNA - US Department of Defense). USNA is #1 Public (#3 Overall) Liberal Art Institution in the US in 2023 by US News and Ranking.
He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics in Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US. PennMedicine is the first medical school established in the United States and the Ivy League. He is excited to strengthen his research portfolio at Shen Lab headed by Prof Li Shen, Professor of Informatics / Deputy Director, Division of Informatics.
In May 2022, he received his PhD in the School of Industrial Engineering (PurdueIE: #2 Undergraduate (2023) and #7 (2023) Graduate IE Program in U.S.) at Purdue University College of Engineering (#4 Graduate Engineering Program in US, 2022). He was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Joaquin Goñi (Head of CONNplexity Lab) during his PhD journey. In addition, his research foundation has also been strengthened by Prof. Mario Dzemidzic (Associate Research Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine) and Dr. Alan David Kaplan (Group Leader in Computational Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - a US Department of Energy National Lab).
In terms of service, he is currently on search committees at USNA; before that, he was the chair of health and wellness (Purdue IE - 2019) and a committee member (a search consultant) in the Search Committee for the Purdue IE Head Search in 2021. Dr. Duong-Tran was selected based on his view on Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (an ideal deeply embedded in the US culture "E pluribus unum" (Out of many, One).
All ranks are cited from 2023 US News and World Ranking Report.
Latest News 👉
April 2024: Welcome Midshipman Maggie De Fabio joining the Lab.
April 2024: MIDN Noelle De Vente was chosen as the 2nd Battalion Commander for the next semester (Fall of 2024). She was selected out of 1,100 of her classmates to lead and represent the 800 midshipmen under her battalion's command. In addition to taking responsibility for the safety, well-being, and efficiency of her Battalion, she ensures the Commandant's and Brigade Commander's policies are instituted and upheld within her command.
March 2024: "Homological landscape of human brain functional sub-circuits" by Duy Duong-Tran*, Ralph Kaufmann*, Jiong Chen*... & Li Shen. (2024) was presented by Jiong Chen in 2024 UPENN DBEI Research Day
Jan 2024: Congrats all authors Duy Duong-Tran*, Mark Magsino* (USNA) , Joaquin Goni (Purdue), and Li Shen (Penn) for the acceptance of the paper "PRESERVING HUMAN LARGE-SCALE BRAIN CONNECTIVITY FINGERPRINT IDENTIFIABILITY WITH RANDOM PROJECTIONS" to be appeared in the 2024 International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) - IEEE Indexed.
Jan 2024: Congrats all authors Duy Duong-Tran*, Ralph Kaufmann*, Jiong Chen*, Xuan Wang, Sumita Garai, Fredericks Xu, Jingxuan Bao, Enrico Amico, Alan D. Kaplan, Giovanni Petri, Joaquin Goni, Yize Zhao, and Li Shen for the acceptance of the paper "Homological landscape of human brain functional sub-circuits" in Journal of Mathematics (IF=2.5, CiteScore=3.6), Special Issue "Computer Graphics, Visualization and Medical Imaging: Theory and Applications." Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/12/3/455
Dec 2023: Congrats (co-)authors [Frederick H. Xu, Michael Gao, Jiong Chen, Sumita Garai, Duy Duong-Tran, Yize Zhao, Li Shen] of the paper "Topology-based Clustering of Functional Brain Networks in an Alzheimer’s Disease Cohort." accepted, to be appeared in AMIA-IS’24: AMIA Informatics Summit Proceeding, 2024, Boston.
Nov 2023: Welcome Midshipman Noelle De Vente joining the Lab.
Archived News 👉
Oct 2023: Congrats Bach Nguyen on having an extended abstract accepted in Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Okinawa, Japan, Spring 2024. Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkZuIIJBYT.
Sept 2023: Congrats Nghi Nguyen on being awarded with the prestigious European Union (EU) Erasmus Mundus Graduate Fellowship where he will spend the first year at Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Israel and the 2nd year of study in Netherland.
August 2023: Asst. Prof Duy Duong-Tran to present at Research Seminar, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam on August 16, 2023. Link: https://vinuni.edu.vn/research/event/research-seminar-the-human-brain-as-viewed-through-the-lenses-of-mathematics-dr-duy-duong-tran-the-united-states-naval-academy/
July 2023: Congrats Sandra Vo (Regis University) for getting a poster accepted for presentation in the 2023 Leadership Alliance National Symposium. Her work focused on human brain and network neuroscience visualization. Great collaboration with Shen Lab (UPenn).
June 2023: The paper "Mining Correlation between Fluid Intelligence and Whole-brain Large Scale Structural Connectivity" was accepted in AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings 2023.
March 2023: Four Extended Abstracts were accepted in 2023 Organization of Human Brain Mapping Conference in Montreal, Canada. They are:
a) On topological landscape of human brain functional networks (co-authors: Ralph Kaufmann (Purdue), Xuan Wang (George Mason), Enrico Amico (EPFL), Alan Kaplan (LLNL), Giovanni Petri (Centai Italy), Yize Zhao (Yale), Joaquin Goni (Purdue), Moo Chung (UW-Madison) and Li Shen (UPenn))
b) Thalamo-cortical Mass Model unveils Aging-Like Slow Wave-Spindle Dynamics (co-authors: Nghi Nguyen (Fulbright University) and Li Shen (UPenn))
c) Subject and Task Fingerprint using Dynamics Reconstruction from fMRI Time-series Data (co-authors: Muhammad Umair (George Mason), Xuan Wang(George Mason), and Li Shen(UPenn))
d) "Vertex Importance for forming co-cycles and its correlation with cognitive performance. Garai, S., Duong-Tran, D., Xu, F., Zhao, Y., and Shen, L.
Selected work
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High-order coordination patterns and geometrically-aware computations. Leveraging tools in algebraic topology, such as persistent homology computations, opens a whole new array of opportunities to identify potential non-local mesoscopic structures that distinguish between healthy controls and patient groups. In addition, undirected networks are indeed (semi-)positive definite matrices in which non-Euclidean geometry might be more fitting.
Low dimensional Representation of high-dimensional data. In this paper, I represent how human brain reconfigures under various cognitive conditions using two phenotype coordinates (Trapping Efficiency and Exit Entropy).
Seminar on community detection problem in complex network.
Seminar (in English) on Statistical Process Control (SPC). This talk focused on traditional industrial processes. To date, SPC has been extended to application in tracking anomalous activities in health applications, or complex networks.
Get in touch
Penn Medicine: duyanh.duong-tran@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
USNA Email: duongtra@usna.edu
Twitter: @DuyDuongTran1