I defended my PhD dissertation in October, 2009, and I am now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, I was a graduate student at the Department of Computer Science, Rice University, where I worked with Professor Luay K. Nakhleh from 2006 to 2009.

I was born and grew up in Việt Nam. My full name in Vietnamese is Thân Văn Cường. I did my undergraduate work at Hanoi University of Technology. In 2005, I was awarded a fellowship from the Vietnam Education Foundation to study in the U.S.

For my CV, please click here.

Research

My research interests are in the area of bioinformatics, particularly phylogenetics.

Publications

• C. Than, L. Nakhleh, "Species Tree Inference by Minimizing Deep Coalescences." PLoS Computational Biology, 5(9):e1000501, 2009.
• C. Than, D. Ruths, and L. Nakhleh, "PhyloNet: A Software Package for Analyzing and Reconstructing Reticulate Evolutionary Relationships." BMC Bioinformatics, 9:322, 2008.
• C. Than, G. Jin, and L. Nakhleh, "Integrating Sequence and Topology for Efficient and Accurate Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer." Proceedings of the Sixth RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI 5267), 113–127, 2008.
• I. Kanj, L. Nakhleh, C. Than, and G. Xia, "Seeing the Trees and Their Branches in the Network is Hard." Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), 401:153–164, 2008.
• C. Than, R. Sugino, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Efficient Inference of Bacterial Strain Trees from Genome-scale Multi-locus Data." The 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). Bioinformatics, 24:i123–131, 2008.
• C. Than and L. Nakhleh, "SPR-based Tree Reconciliation: Non-binary Trees and Multiple Solutions." Proceedings of the Sixth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), 251–260, 2008.
• I. Kanj, L. Nakhleh, C. Than, and G. Xia, "Seeing the Trees and Their Branches in the Network is Hard." Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS), 82–93, 2007.
• C. Than, D. Ruths, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Confounding Factors in HGT Detection: Statistical Error, Coalescent Effects, and Multiple Solutions." Journal of Computational Biology, 14(4): 517–535, 2007.
• C. Than, D. Ruths, H. Innan, and L. Nakhleh, "Identifiability Issues in the Phylogenetic-Based Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer." Proceedings of the Fourth RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop. Lectures Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI 4205), 215–229, 2006.
• B. Nguyen, C. Than, P. Nguyen, and B. Ho, "A Mixed Similarity Measure for Data with Numeric, Symbolic and Ordinal Attributes." IEIC (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Technical Report, 104:67–72, 2004.

Contact

Office: 3117 Duncan Hall
Office phone: (713) 348-3843
E-mail: cvthan@cs.rice.edu

Web Links

• Bioinformatics Group's Wiki
• The Who's Who of Phylogenetic Networks
• Photos

this page was last updated on 2009/11/04