Mai Nguyen

Dr. Nguyen is the Lead for Data Analytics at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UCSD. She also holds the position of Associate Director for AI of the WIFIRE Lab at SDSC.  Her research centers on applying deep/machine learning and data science 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. Dr. Nguyen holds a patent and teaches courses and workshops on machine learning and scalable analytics.  Prior to joining SDSC, she worked in industry for over fifteen years on applications in machine learning, data mining, business intelligence, and data warehousing.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego

INSTRUCTIONAL AREA
Innovation, Technology, and Operations

COURSES TAUGHT
MGTA 462B: Big Data Technology – Scalable Analytics
MGTA 495: Special Topics