Bui Quang Minh

Research Interests:

• Phylogenetic Analysis
• Conservation Genetics
• Parallel Computing
• Algorithms

Short Vita:

Education:

• Jan 2006 - Jan 2009: PhD student at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria.
• Oct 2002 - Oct 2005: Master student in Applied Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.
• 1997 - 2001: Bachelor in Computer Science, National University of Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 1994 - 1997: High School for the Gifted in Informatics, Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam.

Degree:

• 'Ph.D.' in Molecular Biology (Dr. rer. nat.), Vienna, Austria, in 2009
  Advisor: Prof. Dr. Arndt von Haeseler
  Thesis: Computational Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
• 'M.Sc.' in Computer Science, Freiburg, Germany, in 2005
  Advisor: Prof. Dr. Susanne Albers and Prof. Dr. Arndt von Haeseler
  Thesis: Parallel reconstruction of large maximum likelihood phylogenies
• 'B.Sc.' in Computer Science, Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2001
  Advisor: Dr. Ha Quang Thuy
  Thesis: Solutions to Vietnamese in Linux

Professional Experience:

• Feb 2009 - present: Postdoc at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria.
• 08.2005-10.2005: Guest Student Program at NIC/ZAM, Research Center Juelich.
• 12.2004-12.2005: Master Thesis at the Bioinformatics Department, Düsseldorf University.
• 05.2003-02.2004: "Hiwijob" for Prof.Dr. Stefan Leue at the Freiburg University with topic "Model Checking" with UML-Realtime.
• 09.2001-09.2002: Teaching Assistant at the Department of Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Member of Project "Linux OS: Researchs and Realization in Faculty of Technology and in Vietnam". Research on Data Mining, Parallel Computing and Vietseek's Search Engine.
• 05.2000-08.2001: Member of national Project: "Operating System Vietnam Linux". Responsible for Solutions to Vietnamese in Linux.

Awards:

• 2004: 4th Prize, Imagine Cup 2004, Microsoft Deutschlands, together with Duc Phuong Nguyen. Topic: Mobile Learning with LARA.
• 2001: 2nd VIFOTEC Innovation Prize. Topic: Solutions to Vietnamese in Linux.
• 2000: 3rd Prize Chinese Chess Computer Competition.
• 2000: Young Innovation Medal by Vietnam Youth Union.
• 1998: Special Prize of National Informatics Olympiad for Universities.
• 1997: 1st Prize in National Informatics Contest for High School.
• 1994: 3rd Prize in National Mathematics Contest for Secondary School.
• 1994: 1st Prize for Problem Solving Contest of Newspaper for Mathematics and Youth.

Publications

In Journals:

• J. Hofmann, K. Frenzel, B. Q. Minh, A. von Haeseler, A. Edelmann, R.S. Ross, D.H. Krueger, H. Meisel (2010) Quantitative detection and typing of Hepatitis D virus in human serum by real-time PCR and melting curve analysis. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis., 67, 172-179. (DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.02.003, PMID: 20466196)
• U. Krauss^e, B.Q. Minh^e, A. Losi, W. Gaertner, T. Eggert, A. von Haeseler, and K.E. Jaeger (2009) Distribution and phylogeny of light-oxygen-voltage-blue-light-signaling proteins in the three kingdoms of life. J. Bacteriol., 191, 7234-7242. (DOI: 10.1128/JB.00923-09, PMID: 19783626)
  ^e contributed equally
• B. Q. Minh, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2009) Taxon Selection under Split Diversity. Syst. Biol., 57, 586-594. (DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp058)
• B.Q. Minh, F. Pardi, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2009) Budgeted Phylogenetic Diversity on Circular Split Systems. IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform., 6, 22-29. (DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.54, PMID: 19179696)
• B.Q. Minh, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2006) Phylogenetic Diversity within Seconds. Syst. Biol., 55, 769-773. (DOI: 10.1080/10635150600981604)
• B.Q. Minh, L.S. Vinh, A. von Haeseler, and H.A. Schmidt (2005) pIQPNNI -- Parallel Reconstruction of Large Maximum Likelihood Phylogenies. Bioinformatics, 21:3794-3796. (free reprint, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti594, PMID: 16046495)

In Proceedings:

• B.Q. Minh, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2010) SDA*: A Simple and Unifying Solution to Recent Bioinformatic Chaallenges for Conservation Genetics. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engeneering - KSE-2010 (Hanoi, Vietnam), 33-37, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. (DOI: 10.1109/KSE.2010.24, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4213-3)
• H.Q. Dinh, ,B.Q. Minh, H.X. Huan and A. von Haeseler (2010) ACOPHY: A simple and general ant colony optimization approach for phylogenetic tree reconstruction. LNCS, 6234 (Proceedings of the 7th Intl. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2010), 360-367. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_32)
• B.Q. Minh, S. Klaere, and A. von Haeseler (2007) Phylogenetic Diversity on Split Systems. Preprint Series of the Isaac Newton Institute. (free reprint)
• B.Q. Minh, L.S. Vinh, H.A. Schmidt, and A. von Haeseler (2006) Large Maximum Likelihood Trees. Proceedings of the NIC Symposium 2006. 357-365, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. (free reprint, ISBN 3-00-017351-X)

In Vietnam:

• T.N. Pham, B.Q. Minh, and Q.T. Ha (2004) Solution to find similar web pages in Vietseek Search Engine. Journal of Informatics and Cybernetics, Vietnam.
• V.H. Tran, X.H. Phan, B.Q. Minh, Q.T. Ha (2002) Model for Parallel Association Rules Mining from the point of Rough Set. Proceedings of International Conference on East Asian Language Processing and Internet Information Technology (EALPIIT 2002), Hanoi, Vienam.
• B.Q. Minh, Q.L. Tran (2001) Solutions to Vietnamese Language and GVNkey keyboard beater in Linux. Workshop, Hai Phong, Vietnam.

Softwares

• IQPNNI - Important Quartet Puzzling and Nearest Neighbor Interchange
• PDA - Phylogenetic Diversity Analyzer

Physical address:

Links:

GVNkey - A Keyboard Program for Vietnamese in Linux

BCaro Master: A Gomoku Program

Bui Quang Minh - Last Change: 25.Mar.2011 .