Andrew Nguyen

Andrew Nguyen has been working at the intersection of healthcare data and AI for more than a decade, with a focus on data from electronic health records, insurance claims, digital health apps, and biomedical sensors. He quickly discovered graph databases and has been using them to harmonize disparate data sources for nearly as long. He has worked for a variety of organizations ranging from academia to startups.Andrew is currently the Head of the Medical Informatics Section at one of the largest biopharma companies in the world, where he leads a team focused on harmonizing healthcare RWD sources for all levels of analytics from statistics to machine learning. He also holds an Adjunct Research Associate Professor appointment at Temple University, and serves as co-chair of the Data Working Group of the Alliance for AI in Healthcare.Prior to his current roles, he served as chair of the Department of Health Professions, and director of the MS in Health Informatics program at the University of San Francisco. He also taught classes in medical informatics, semantic interoperability, machine learning, clinical natural language processing, and biosignal/time series data analysis.Andrew holds a PhD in biological and medical informatics from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a BS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In his spare time, he enjoys photography, hiking/backpacking, and SCUBA diving, and serves as the technical rescue coordinator for his local Search and Rescue team.