NAM-KY NGUYEN

IPO Box 135 75B Dinh Tien Hoang Hanoi Vietnam Tel:       (84)  42212811 Mobile:(84)904771158 e-mail: nkn@designcomputing.net

A seasoned statistician with over 20 years of diversified experience in teaching, consulting and research at various organizations in Australia and abroad. Accredited by the Statistical Society of Australia (AStat) in 1998. Has taught a number of statistics/computing subjects at tertiary level and has a good knowledge of R, S-plus, SAS, SPSS, Genstat, and Java. Author of 40 publications in applied statistics/computing and collaborative research. Author of the Gendex DOE toolkit. This toolkit is currently in use at nearly 100 universities and research organizations worldwide. Research interest includes design of experiments, statistical computing and statistical modeling.

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics (IASRI, New Delhi) Thesis: Computer-aided construction of optimal designs, 1983.
• M.Sc in Statistics (UPLB, Los Banos) Thesis: Some applications of cluster analysis, 1978.
• B.A. in Human Science (Saigon University) 1973.
• Diploma in Education (Saigon University) 1971.

Professional Experience

• 2007 (April)- Honorary Scientist, Center for High-Performance Computing, Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 2006-2007 Senior Research Statistician, SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
• 2003-2006 Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, UNE, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
• 2001-2003 Senior Biometrician, Department of Primary Industries, Knoxfield, VIC, Australia.
• 1995-2000 Senior Research Scientist, Biological Statistics Project, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
• 1989-1994 Research Scientist, Biometrics Unit, CSIRO, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
• 1988-1989 Senior Research Officer, Victorian Gas & Fuel Corp., Economic Policy & Research Dept., Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• 1986-1988 Lecturer in Computing & Statistics, Department of Mathematics & Computing, RMIT, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
• 1983-1985 Biometrician, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibandan, Nigeria.
• 1978-1980 Statistician, Mekong Project, ESCAP (UN), Social & Economic Studies Division, Bangkok, Thailand.

Professional Activities

• Member of the International Biometric Society (IBS).
• Member of the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA).
• Member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
• Referee for the following journals: Applied Statistics, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Communications in Statistics (Simulation & Computation), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference, Journal of Statistics & Applications, Journal of Quality Technology, and Technometrics.

Publications in Applied Statistics/Computing

1. (1985) The use of Genstat for the analysis of designed experiments at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Genstat Newsletter 16, 24-28. (Invited paper for the 4th Genstat Conference 1985 at York, UK).
2. (1989) Computer-aided construction of D-optimal 2^m fractional factorial designs of resolution V, with A. Dey. Austral. J. Statistics 31, 111-117.
3. (1990) Computer-aided construction of small (M,S)-optimal incomplete block designs, with A. Dey , Austral. J. Statistics 32, 339-410.
4. (1992) A review of exchange algorithms for constructing discrete D-optimal designs, with A.J. Miller. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 14, 489-498.
5. (1993) An algorithm for constructing optimal resolvable incomplete block designs. Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation 22, 911-923.
6. (1993) An algorithm for constructing optimal resolvable row-column designs, with E. R. Williams. Austral. J. of Statistics 35, 363-370.
7. (1994) Construction of optimal block design by computer. Technometrics 36, 300-307.
8. (1994) A Fedorov exchange algorithm for D-optimal design, with A.J. Miller. Applied Statistics 43, 669-678.
9. (1996) An algorithmic approach to constructing supersaturated designs. Technometrics 38, 69-73.
10. (1996) A note on constructing near-orthogonal arrays with economic run size. Technometrics 38, 279-283.
11. (1997) Construction of optimal row-column designs by computer. Computing Science & Statistics 28, 471-475.
12. (1997) 2^m fractional factorial designs of resolution V with high A-efficiency, 7≤m≤10, with A.J. Miller. J. of Statistical Planning & Inference 59, 379-384.
13. (2001) Cutting experimental designs into blocks. Austral. & New Zealand J. of Statistics 43, 367-374.
14. (2002) Incomplete block designs, with W.T. Federer. Encyclopedia of Environmetrics 2, 1039-1042. Edited by El-Shaarawi & W.W. Piegorsch. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
15. (2002) A modified cyclic-coordinate exchange algorithm as illustrated by the construction of minimum-point second-order designs. Advances in Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas. Edited by C. Gulati, Y-X Lin, S. Mishra, J. Rayner. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 205-210.
16. (2005) Computer-generated experimental designs for irregular-shaped regions, with G.F. Piepel. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management 2, 147-160.
17. (2006) Experimental Designs for 2-colour cDNA Microarray Experiments, with E.R. Williams. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 22, 631-638.
18. (2008) New 3-level response surface designs constructed from incomplete block designs, with J. J. Borkowski. J. of Statistical Planning & Inference 138, 294-305.
19. (2008) New E(s²)-optimal supersaturated designs constructed from from incomplete block designs, with C-S Cheng.  Technometrics 50, 26-31.
20. (2008) Orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays constructed from incomplete block designs, with M. Q. Liu. To appear in Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

1. (1987) Teaching statistical software to non-statisticians. Proc. of the STATCOM 87 Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
2. (1992) Construction of optimal row-column designs by computer, with E. R. Williams. Proc. of the 16^th International Biometric Conference, Hamilton (New Zealand).
3. (1992) Srivastava-Chopra optimal balanced 2^m fractional factorial designs of resolution V and alternatives, 7≤m≤10 with A. J. Miller. Proc. of the 16^th International Biometric Conference, Hamilton, (New Zealand).
4. (1993) Cyclic designs without tears. Proc. of Statistics 93, University of Wollongwong.
5. (1993) Gendex: An algorithmic toolkit for generating designs of experiments. Proc. of Statistics 93, University of Wollongwong.
6. (1997) Design for experiment or experiment for the design. Proc. of the Australian Conference on Industrial Statistics 97, Wantirna.
7. (1997) A new approach to designing experiments. Proc. of Biometrics 97, Wirrina Cove Paradise Resort.
8. (1998) An algorithmic approach to constructing-trend free designs. Proc. of the 14^th Australian Statistical Conference, Gold Coast.
9. (1998) Computer-generated designs and their use (Invited paper). Proc. of the 6^th International Applied Statistics in Industry Conference, RMIT, Melbourne.
10. (1999) When computer-generated designs beat standard designs. Proc. of Biometrics 99, Hobart, Tasmania.
11. (2002) Design of experiment when experimental resources are scarce. Proc. of the 16^thAustralian Statistical Conference, Canberra.
12. (2004) A fast algorithm for constructing row-column designs. Proc. of the 17^thAustralian Statistical Conference, Cairns.
13. (2005) Experimental Designs for 2-colour cDNA Microarray Experiments(Invited paper). with E.R. Williams. Proc. of the 4^thInternational Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics, Palm Cove Resort (Tropical North Queensland).
14. (2005) New 3-level response surface designs constructed from incomplete block designs(Invited paper). Proc. of the International Conference on Design of Experiments: Theory & Applications, The University of Memphis, Memphis (USA).
15. (2006) An algorithmic approach to constructing mixed-level orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays (Invited paper). International Conference on Design of Experiments and Its Applications, Tianjin (P. R. China).

Collaborative Research Publications

1. (1987) Maize-cowpea inter-cropping as affected by nitrogen fertilization, with H.C. Ezumah & P. Walker. Agronomy Journal 79, 275-280.
2. (1991) An in-ground natural durability field test of Australian timbers and exotic reference species, VI. Results after approximately 21 years exposure, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 26, 145-155.
3. (1992) An in-ground natural durability field test of Australian timbers and exotic reference species, VIII. Association of white and soft rots with the condition of hardwood specimens after 15, 19 and 21 years exposure, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 27, 79-88.
4. (1992) An Australian test for decay in painted timbers exposed to the weather for a total of nine years, with J.W. Creffield, G.C. Johnson, J.D. Thornton & N. Chew. Forest Product J. 42, 35-39.
5. (1993) An accelerated field simulator study of the natural durability of heartwood from mature and regrowth trees, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Proc. of the 24th Forest Product Research Conference, Melbourne, 9pp.
6. (1993) Conditions of natural durability specimens from the CSIRO in-ground field-test after 23 years of exposure, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Proc. of the 24th Forest Product Research Conference, Melbourne, 9pp.
7. (1993) Analysis of Black Wattle (ACACIA MEARSII) Tannin relationships among the Hide-Powder, the Stiasny and the Ultra-Violet (UV) methods, with Y. Yazaki, R. Gu, Y. Lin & W. Chen. Holzforschung 47, 57-61.
8. (1994) Specimen life statistics and mean rates of biodeterioration for untreated heartwood timbers exposed in-ground for 23 years, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson, Proc. of the Pacific Timber Engineering Conference (PTEC 94), Gold Cost, 10 pp.
9. (1994) An in-ground natural durability field test of Australian timbers and exotic reference species IX. Termites and decay on hardwoods at the Walpeup site between 18 and 23 years after installation, with J.W. Creffield, J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 28, 209-235.
10. (1994) An in-ground natural durability field test of Australian timbers and exotic reference species X. Association of termite species with hardwood deterioration at the Walpeup site between 18 and 23 years after installation, with J.W. Creffield, J.D. Thornton and G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 28, 237-242.
11. (1995) Specimen life statistics of untreated heartwood of 35 timbers species after five years exposure in the accelerated field simulator, with J.D. Thornton & G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 29, 81-92.
12. (1996) Assessing timber durability using an accelerated field simulator. II. Specimen life statistics from decay and subterranean termite studies, with J.D. Thornton, G.C. Johnson & J.W. Crefield. Material & Organismen 29, 273-288.
13. (1996) An in-ground natural durability field test of Australian timbers and exotic reference species XI. Results after more than 25 years exposure, with J.D. Thornton and G.C. Johnson. Material & Organismen 30, 219-230.
14. (1997) Revised natural durability ratings for the outer hardwood of mature timbers in ground contact. Proc. of the 25th Forest Product Research Conference, Melbourne, 12pp.
15. (1997) Revised CSIRO natural durability classification in-ground durability ratings for mature outer heartwood, with J.D. Thornton and G.C. Johnson. Leaflet 1xA3.
16. (2000) A field test of pigment emulsified creosote (PEC): 11 years data, with J.W. Creffield, H. Greaves & N. Chew. Forest Products J. 50, 77-82.
17. (2001) Curative treatments trialed on young grapevines infected with Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, with N. Laukart, J. Edwards & I.G. Pascoe. Phytopathologia Mediterranea 40: Supplement, S459-S463.
18. (2003) An evaluation of variability within wine-grape vineyards used for participatory on-farm trials, with D.C. Joyce & N. Laukart, submitted to Australian J. of Experimental Agriculture.

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