CCEB Seminar- Thuc Duy Le, PhD

"Applications of Causality Discovery in Bioinformatics and Cancer Research" Thuc Duy Le, PhD Senior Lecturer and NHMRC EC Fellow School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences University of South Australia I am currently a National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) EC Research Fellow in Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is an inter-disciplinary research area which uses knowledge in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics to solve biological problems. I have a diverse educational background with BSc and MSc in Mathematics, BSc in Computer Science, and PhD in Bioinformatics. I have been awarded the Ian Davey Thesis Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis at UniSA, ECR Networking Awards to visit the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan in 2015, and Center for Causal Inference, University of Pennsylvania in 2019.My research focuses on the development of causal inference methods and their applications in Bioinformatics, particularly in gene regulatory networks, cancer drivers, non-coding RNAs, and cancer subtype discovery.I am also a Senior Lecturer in the School of ITMS, teaching data science courses.