Mai Nguyen, Ph.D.

Roles

• Lead - Data Analytics, SDSC
• Associate Director of AI - WIFIRE Lab, SDSC

Biography

Dr. Nguyen is the Lead for Data Analytics at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the Associate Director for AI of the WIFIRE Lab at SDSC. Her research centers on applying deep/machine learning and data science techniques to interdisciplinary problems. She has worked in many application areas, including remote sensing, medical image analysis, biomedical text analytics, wildfire mitigation, spacecraft autonomy, and speech recognition. Prior to joining SDSC, she worked in industry on applications in machine learning, data mining, business intelligence, and data warehousing. She has also been teaching in these areas since 2009. Mai received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCSD, with focus on machine learning.

Expertise

• Machine Learning/Deep Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Interdisciplinary Research

Current Projects

• WIFIRE Lab - Workflows Integrating Collaborative Hazard Sciences
• Wildfire Smoke Detection - SmokeyNet: Deep Learning Model for Real-Time Wildland Fire Smoke Detection
• Natural Language Processing - Discovering Content through Text Mining for a Synthetic Biology Knowledge System
• Voyager - AI-focused Supercomputer
• Remote Sensing - Scalable Detection of Rural Schools in Africa Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Satellite Imagery
• Medical Image Analysis - Analytics Pipeline for Left Ventricle Segmentation and Volume Estimation on Cardiac MRI Using Deep Learning