Academic Team
Huynh Viet Linh
Faculty member in Computer Science
Fields of Interest:
- Computational biology
- Epigenomics
- Synthetic biology
Education:
- PhD: 2016, University of California, Davis, USA
- Postdoc: 2017-2019, University of California, Davis, USA
- Postdoc: 2020-2022, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
Bio: Linh Huynh develops computational methods to help biologists analyze their data. The final goal of these analyses is to understand the mechanism of complex diseases such as cancer or autism. Linh is also interested in synthetic biology where he develops computer aided design (CAD) tools for engineering living organisms for useful purposes. Linh obtained his B.E. in computer science and engineering at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and his PhD in computer science at University of California at Davis. Before joining Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), Linh was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis Genome Center and then Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (Toronto, Canada). Linh has received several awards for his academic work, including the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) Fellowship and the Princess Margaret Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Courses:
- Design and analysis of algorithms
- Theory of computation
- Introduction to computational biology
- Quantitative reasoning
Select Publications:
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- Zhang, Juan, Lamisa Ataei, Kirti Mittal, Liang Wu, Lauren Caldwell, Linh Huynh, Shahil Sarajideen et al. “LINE1 and PRC2 control nucleolar organization and repression of the 8C state in human ESCs.” Developmental Cell 60, no. 2 (2025): 186-203.
- Abatti, Luis E., Patricia Lado-Fernández, Linh Huynh, Manuel Collado, Michael M. Hoffman, and Jennifer A. Mitchell. “Epigenetic reprogramming of a distal developmental enhancer cluster drives SOX2 overexpression in breast and lung adenocarcinoma.” Nucleic acids research 51, no. 19 (2023): 10109-10131.
- Huynh, Linh, and Fereydoun Hormozdiari. “TAD fusion score: discovery and ranking the contribution of deletions to genome structure.” Genome biology 20, no. 1 (2019): 1-13.
- Huynh, Linh, and Fereydoun Hormozdiari. “Combinatorial approach for complex disorder prediction: Case study of neurodevelopmental disorders.” Genetics 210, no. 4 (2018): 1483-1495.
- Huynh, Linh, Athanasios Tsoukalas, Matthias Köppe, and Ilias Tagkopoulos. “SBROME: a scalable optimization and module matching framework for automated biosystems design.” ACS synthetic biology 2, no. 5 (2013): 263-273.
