N. Rich Nguyen

Rich Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. His research has been dedicated to biomedical image analysis, computing education, and machine learning funded by several generous institutional and federal grants. He has authored and co-authored 20 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in biomedical image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, and computer science education with 165+ citations on Google Scholar. He has taught machine learning courses in the Computer Science Department for seven semesters. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, he worked as a career manager to help students connect to over 50 companies including several from Fortune 500. Rich has also taught various courses in machine learning, introduction to algorithms, and computing professional seminars to a total of 1,458 computer science students over five years. In 2019, he was selected as a recipient of the Google Faculty Award for Machine Learning Education.