Thinh Nguyen
Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501

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Biography
Nguyen earned a B.S. from the University of Washington, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His doctoral work focused on multimedia streaming over the Internet, using the path diversity framework in conjunction with network protocols, and source and channel coding techniques. This work won him best paper award at Packet Video Workshop 2002. His current research interests include multimedia networking, signal processing, computer graphics, machine learning, data analysis and data mining.

Before joining Oregon State University in September, 2004, he was a post-doctoral research associate in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. While at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Nguyen was involved in a number of projects ranging from analyzing statistics of streamed dataset to image processing. From 1998 to 2003, he was a research assistant in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. From 1996-1998, he was a graphics researcher at Intel's Microcomputer Research Lab , working on fast methods for 3-D visualization and navigation in human body. He also spent 6 months at Microsoft, optimizing DirectX6 for Pentium III. From 1995 to1996, he worked on caches for multi-processor system in the Microprocessor Group at Intel, Corp. Before that, he worked on PBX switches at ROLM, Siemens.