Ken Nguyen, PhD
Graduate Faculty - Assistant Professor

Education
PhD, Computer Science / Bioinformatics, Georgia State University
BS(1999) and MS(2001), Computer Science, Georgia State University

Research Areas: Databases, Optical and Reconfigurable Networks, and Bioinformatics

Teaching

Office: University Center, room #334(U334)
Email: KenNguyenatclaytondotedu | Phone: (678) 466-4419
Office Hours: Mon/Wed: 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Tue/Thu: 8:45AM - 9:45AM and 3:30PM - 5:00PM
AND by appointments

Spring, 2012
CSCI 1301 - Computer Science I
CSCI 1302- Computer Science II
CSCI 2302 - Data Structures and Algorithms
CSCI 4304 - Computer Graphics

WebEx Meetings

Previously Taught Courses



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I was a CS lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University (GSU) from 2001-2010. ~ Click HERE to access my work at GSU. ~

Research

Selected Publications

  1. [Book] Nguyen, K. D. and Yi Pan. "Biological Multiple Sequence Alignment: Scoring Functions, Algorithms, and Evaluations", John Wiley & Sons, Inc (contracted)
  2. Nguyen, K. D. and Yi Pan. "An Improved Scoring Method for Multiple Sequence Alignment", IEEE- Transaction NanoBioscienceVol 10, No. 4, pp: 275-285, Dec. 2011
  3. Nguyen, K. D. and Yi Pan. "Parallel Progressive Multiple Sequence Alignment on Meshes", BMC Genomics. Vol. 12, Supp. 5, S4, 2011
  4. Nguyen, K. D. and Yi Pan, "Multiple Sequence Alignment Based on Dynamic Weighted Guidance Tree", International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. Vol. 7, No 2, pp. 168-182, 2011
  5. Nguyen, K. D. and A. G. Bourgeois. "Ant Colony Optimal Algorithm: Fast Ants on the Optical Pipe-lined RMesh", proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2006), IEEE Computer Society: pp.347- 354, 2006

Grants

In the News
Featured in GSU Magazine and appeared on GSU's front page (August, 2011)
Won MBD Best Presentation Award, 2011
Won A Dissertation Award and The Suttles Fellowship - GSU highest graduate honor
Won MBD Best Poster Award, 2010

Contact

Office: University Center #334
Phone: (678) 466-4419
Email: KenNguyenatclaytondotedu

Postal Contact
Department of Information Technology
Clayton State University
2000 Clayton State Blvd.
Morrow, GA 30260