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Publications

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Books

  1. Designing Art, Music and Animations. Bull, G., Watts, J., Nguyen, N. R. Association for the Avancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 2021. PDF Bibtex
  2. Creating Art, Animations, and Music through Coding. Bull, G., Watts, J., Nguyen, N. R., Bull, G., Kallam, A. Association for the Avancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 2020. PDF Bibtex
  3. An Introduction to Computational Thinking Through Art, Music, and Games. Bull, G., Garofalo, J., Nguyen, N. R. Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education. 2019. PDF Bibtex

Journal Articles

  1. Reflection: "Twenty things to do with a computer" revisited. Bull, G., Nguyen, N. R., Watts, J., Gibson, R., & Littman, M. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 22(1), 228-242. 2022. PDF Bibtex
  2. Thinking about computational thinking. Bull, G., Garofalo, J., Nguyen, N. R. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education 36:1, 6-18, 2020. (Impact Factor: 1.871). PDF Bibtex
  3. Hydrogen sulfide modulates sinusoidal constriction and contributes to hepatic microcirculatory dysfunction during endotoxemia. E.Norris, M. Fish, C. Culberson, N. Nguyen, M. Shin, M. Clemens. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology, 304(12), G1070-G1078, 2013. (Impact Factor: 4.406). PDF Bibtex
  4. Tracking Colliding Cells in vivo Microscopy. N. Nguyen, E.Norris, S. Keller, T. H. Huynh, M. Clemens, M. Shin. IEEE transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(8):2391-2400. 10.1109/TBME.2011.2158099. 2011. (Impact Factor: 4.424). PDF Bibtex
  5. Reducing Leukocyte Trafficking Preseves Hepatic Function after Sepsis. T. H. Huynh, N. Nguyen, S. Keller, C. Moore, M. Shin, I. McKillop. The Journal of Trauma, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 69(2):360-7. 2010. (Impact Factor: 3.403). PDF Bibtex

Conference Proceedings / Posters

  1. Validating Crowdsourced Flood Images Using Machine Learning and Real-Time Weather Data. Gupta A., Kim A., Karande A., Yan S., Manandhar S., Nguyen, N.R. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Wuhan, China Oct 28-30, 2022. (accepted) N/A
  2. Deep Learning Risk Prediction of Bloodstream Infection in the Intensive Care Unit. Boner Z., Moore C., and Nguyen, N.R. In Proceedings of KDD Undergraduate Consortium, Washington, DC. Aug 14-18, 2022. PDF
  3. Predicting and Visualizing Tidal Trends in Vietnam using an Automated Geographical Data Pipeline. Gupta A. and Nguyen, N.R. In Proceedings of KDD Undergraduate Consortium, Washington, DC. Aug 14-18, 2022. PDF
  4. Creating Music through Coding. Watts, J., Gibson, R., Jones, M., Bull, G. & Nguyen, N.R. In E. Langran (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (p. 102), Waynesville, NC USA, 2022. (Outstanding Poster Award). PDF BIB
  5. TuneScope: Engaging Novices to Computational Thinking through Music. N. Nguyen. Harsh Padhye, Eric Stein, and Glen Bull. In Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2022), Providence, RI. Feb 2022. PDF Poster
  6. Toward an Open-source Toolkit for Machine Learning Education. N. Nguyen. Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE), Portland, OR. March 2020. PDF Poster
  7. CodeNC: Integrating Computational Thinking into K-12 Instructional Activities using Animated Videos. N. Nguyen, Iuliia Poliakova, Sahithi Meduri, Joshua Hutcheson, and Ryan Ke. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2019. PDF Poster Website
  8. Affective Peer Tutoring. N. Nguyen. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE), Baltimore, MD, USA. 2018. PDF Poster
  9. Detecting Social Insects in Videos using Spatiotemporal Regularization. N. Nguyen, M. Shin. Proc. IEEE Winter Conference on on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Santa Rosa, CA, March 26-29, 2017. PDF Poster Webpage
  10. Detection of cracks in nuclear power plant using spatial-temporal grouping of local patches. S. J. Schmugge, L. Rice, N. Nguyen, J. Lindberg, M. Shin. Proc. IEEE Winter Conference on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Lake Placid, NY, 2016, pp. 1-7. PDF
  11. Automatic detection of cracks during power plant inspection. S. J. Schmugge, C. Thao, N. Nguyen, J. Lindberg, M. Shin. Proceedings of the 2014 3rd International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, Foz do Iguassu, 2014, pp. 1-5. PDF
  12. Improving Pollen Classification with Less Training Effort. N. Nguyen, M. Donaldson-Matasci, M. Shin. Proc. IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Clearwater Beach, FL. January 17-18, 2013. PDF Poster WACV
  13. Hydrogen Sulfide Increases Hepatic Perfusion Heterogeneity via an Acute Constrictor Effect in Endotoxemia. E. Norris, C. Culberson, N. Nguyen, M. Shin, and M. Clemens. The 63rd Annual Meeting of The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver Meeting), Boston, Massachusettes, November 9-13, 2012. PDF
  14. Rapidly Adaptive Cell Detection using Transfer Learning with a Global Parameter. N. Nguyen, E.Norris, M. Clemens, M. Shin. The Second International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) at MICCAI Toronto, Canada. September 18-22, 2011. PDF Poster Webpage
  15. Hydrogen Sulfide Contributes to Hepatic Microcirculatory Dysfunction During Endotoxemia. E. Norris, C. Culberson, N. Nguyen, M. Shin, and M Clemens. The 62nd Annual Meeting of The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver Meeting), San Francisco, California, November 4-8, 2011. PDF
  16. Tracking Colliding Cells. N. Nguyen, S. Keller, T. H. Huynh, M. Shin. Proc. IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Visions (WACV), Snowbird, Utah. December 7-8 2009. PDF Poster Webpage
  17. Segmentation of Vessels Cluttered with Cells using a Physics based Model. S. Schmugge, S. Keller, N. Nguyen, R. Souvenir, T. Huynh, M. Clemens, M. Shin. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), New York, September 6-10 2008. PDF

Invited Presentations

  1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Skits. N. Nguyen, Upsorn Praphamontripong. Invited Workshop in Teaching Assistant Practicum CS 2910, University of Virginia, March 2019. Scripts
  2. What makes you resume standout. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Teaching Assistant Practicum CS 2910, University of Virginia. November 2018. Slides
  3. Creating a Diversity Chain to Raise Culture Awareness among CS Students. N. Nguyen. Poster presentation. Prospect for Success (PFS) Charrette, Charlotte, NC, USA. March 30 2017. PDF
  4. Hosting Industry Panels to Promote Professional Development in Computer Science. N. Nguyen, Dale-Marie Wilson. Poster presentation. Prospect for Success (PFS) Charrette, Charlotte, NC, USA. March 30 2016. PDF
  5. Gameplay: Motivating college students in the classroom. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Center of Graduate Life, UNC Charlotte. April 2012. Video
  6. How to organize research papers. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in CCI GRADS Lecture Series, UNC Charlotte. March 2012. Video
  7. Improving Pollen Classification with Less training effort. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Graduate Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte. March 2013. (Awarded Best Research Talk). Slides
  8. Rapidly adaptive cell detection. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Graduate Research Symposium, UNC Charlotte. April 2012. (Awarded Best Research Talk). Slides
  9. Tracking Colliding Cells. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in NSF REU Symposium, UNC Charlotte. June 2010. Slides
  10. Programming Style Guidelines. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Future Computing Labs Speaker Series, UNC Charlotte. May 2010. Slides
  11. Automated Tracking of Colliding Cells in Intravital Video Microscopy. N. Nguyen. Invited Talk in Summer Scholar Symposium, Carolinas Medical Center. July 2009. Slides

Technical Reports

  1. Age Progression Using Image Morphing. N. Nguyen. Technical Report in Computational Photography, ITCS 6110, UNC Charlotte. April 2009. PDF HTML
  2. Use case Specifications: Dance Competition Management System (DCMS). C. Kumar, M. Gour, N. Nguyen. Technical Report in Software Engineering, ITCS 6112, UNC Charlotte. November 2008. PDF HTML
  3. Understanding Tracking and StroMotion of a Soccer Ball. N. Nguyen. Technical Report in Computer Vision, ITCS 5142, UNC Charlotte. November 2007. PDF HTML

Theses

  1. Reducing training effort in biological image classification. N. Nguyen. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, 2016. Slides
  2. Tracking Colliding Cells in vivo Microscopy Video. N. Nguyen. Master Thesis, Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, 2009. PDF Video

Current and Past Sponsors

Acknowledgement. The above publications are based upon research conducted at the University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte and the University of Virginia, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (under Awards #1842342 and #2026050) and generous fundings from UVA GIDI, UVA 3Cavaliers, Charlotte CCI, and Google. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.

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