Dr Thuc Le

Contact

Email: Thuc.Le@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: +61 8 830 23996
Post: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Adelaide University, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia
Office: D-3-14, Mawson Lakes Campus, Mawson Lakes Blv.

Introduction

I am currently an Associate Professor at Adelaide University. I was a DECRA Fellow (2020-2022), and before that, an NHMRC ECR Fellow in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology (2017-2019). Bioinformatics is an inter-disciplinary research area which uses knowledge in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics to solve biological problems. My research focuses on the development of causal inference methods and their applications in Bioinformatics, particularly in gene regulatory networks, cancer drivers, non-coding RNAs, and cancer subtype discovery. I have a diverse educational background with BSc and MSc in Mathematics, BSc in Computer Science, and PhD in Data Science. Google Scholar , Research Gate , Home Page .

Services (selected)

• Chair: KDD Causal Discovery Workshop (2018-2023)
• PC co-chair of AusDM 2019
• Plos One and BMC Cancer Academic Editor
• Reviewer for: NAR, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Plos Computational Biology, Briefings in Bioinformatics, TKDE, Nature communications
• PC member of: AAAI, PAKDD, KDD, ICML, IJCAI
• Grant reviewer: NHMRC, ARC

Grants (selected)

• Decarbonising concrete with halloysite, recycled plastic fibres and AI, ARC - Linkage, 01/01/2026 - 31/12/2028
• ARC DP, Build competency aware and assuring machine learning systems, (with Lin Liu, Jiuyong Li, and Jixue Liu), 2023-2026, $420K
• DECRA, Next generation causal inference methods for biological data, 2020-2022, $418K
• Industry funding (Maxima), Develop a skill recommendation system for disability employment services, 2020-2023, $90K
• NHMRC Fellowship, System biology approaches to uncovering non-coding RNAs' roles in characterising cancer subtypes, 2017-2020, $318K
• UniSA RTIS Seed Funding, 2019, $40K
• ECR Travel Award (visit Penn), 2019, $12K
• UniSA RTIS, 2018-2020, $80K
• UniSA Project support funding for Fellowship, 2017-2022, $120K
• ITEE Early Career Researcher Award, 2018, $3K
• ITEE division investment funding, 2017, $25K
• Beat the Cancer Travel Grant, SAHMRI, 2017, $2.5K
• ECR Networking Award, UniSA, 2015, $5K
• Ian Davey Thesis Prize, UniSA, 2015, $5K
• EMBL Australia and EMBL Germany Travel Grant, 2012, $4K

Publications