Welcome to Dr. Duy Duong-Tran's personal webpage

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 (#4 Overall) Liberal Art Institution in the US.

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.

He received his PhD in the School of Industrial Engineering (PurdueIE: #2 Undergraduate and #7 (2023) Graduate IE Program in U.S.) at Purdue University College of Engineering (#4 Graduate Engineering Program in US). 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.

***All ranks are cited from 2023 US News and World Ranking Report.***

Highlighted work and NEWS

03/2025: Our paper "Knowledge-Driven Feature Selection and Engineering for Genotype Data with Large Language Models." received the prestigious Marco Ramoni Distinguished Paper Award for Translational Bioinformatics in the 2025 American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit (AMIA-IS), Pittsburgh, PA. Congrats Joseph Lee, et al. [Archived Link]

02/2025: Our paper titled "Evaluating topological fitness of human brain-inspired sub-circuits in Echo State Networks" paper receveid best-paper runner-up in the 2025 AAAI Brigde Program on AI4Med. Link to archived paper: 👀 here. (AAAI - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - is a rank A+ Computer Science Conference)

[2022] Western Michigan Inspire Magazine Featured: As medical breakthroughs continue to improve the human condition, data scientists in the specialized field of network neuroscience are striving to isolate even more information and close the gap between their discoveries and clinical applications in an effort to advance diagnoses and personalized treatments.

02/2025: Our paper titled "Automated Cytometric Gating with Human-Level Performance Using Bivariate Segmentation" - published Nature Communication (5th Ranked Journal per Google Scholar H-index of 375) - has been selected as Editors' Choice under the Computational and Theoretical Biology Directory. Read the paper 👀 [DOI LInk]. You can also check out Editors' choice/highlights in other areas [here].

Latest News 👉

[Honor] Mar 2025: Our paper "Knowledge-Driven Feature Selection and Engineering for Genotype Data with Large Language Models." received the prestigious Marco Ramoni Distinguished Paper Award for Translational Bioinformatics in the 2025 American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit (AMIA-IS), Pittsburgh, PA. Congrats Joseph Lee, et al.

[Honor] Feb 2025: Congrats Jiong Chen, and co-authors as the paper titled "Automated Cytometric Gating with Human-Level Performance Using Bivariate Segmentation" - published Nature Communication - has been selected as Editor Choice in Computational and Theoretical Biology Directory. Read the paper 👀 [DOI LInk]. You can also check out Editors' choice/highlights in other areas [here].

[Publication] Jan 2025: Our paper "Automated Cytometric Gating with Human-Level Performance Using Bivariate Segmentation" is accepted, to-be-published in Nature Communication Journal, a Nature Portfolio Publisher with Impact Factor of 14.7 and Rank Top 5 Publication with h-index=375. Congrats Jiong Chen (Penn BioEngineering) et al. [DOI LInk] [Archived Link]

[Honor] Jan 2025: Our paper "Evaluating topological fitness of human brain-inspired sub-circuits in Echo State Networks" receive the runner-up paper award in AAAI Bridge Program - AI Medical Health Workshop (AIMedHealth), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February, 2025. The paper is to be published in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Congrats Bach Viet Nguyen, Tianlong Chen, Shu Yang, Bojian Hou, Li Shen. Link to archived paper here.

[Publication] Jan 2025: Our paper "Knowledge-Driven Feature Selection and Engineering for Genotype Data with Large Language Models." accepted, to be appeared 2025 American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit (AMIA-IS), Pittsburgh, PA. Congrats Joseph Lee, et al.

[Publication] Dec 2024: Our paper "DALK: Dynamic Co-Augmentation of Large Language Models and Knowledge Graph to answer Alzheimer’s Disease Questions with Scientific Literature." published in the 2024 Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)'s Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP - Rank A++ Conference). Congrats Dawei Li et al. [DOI Link] [Archived Link]

Archived 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

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.

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