Dr. Vinh Nguyen is an expert in Machine Learning and Data Science, having published more than 50 research papers in top-tier scientific venues (SIGKDD, ICML, AAAI, JMLR) that are increasingly cited (2000+ Google Scholar citations---https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=XfBr0_wAAAAJ).

Vinh is enthusiastic about applying data science to solve real world problems. He is a Kaggle Master on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/vinhnguyen), a Google's subsidiary that hosts global data science competitions. As of Jan 2018, he ranks within the top 0.5% of all the 70K+ Kagglers.

Vinh won research funding totaling over A$400,000 from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award), University of Melbourne, Amazon and NVIDIA to carry out research in big metropolitan data, large scale machine learning and deep learning. He received two Best Paper Awards, served as a program committee member and reviewer for more than 30 top-tier international conferences (KDD, NIPS, AAAI) and 20 prestigious journals (JMLR, MLJ, TKDD, TKDE). Vinh obtained a PhD degree in Machine Learning from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2011, with his thesis nominated for the UNSW Best Engineering Thesis Award.