Loc Nguyen

Mr Loc Nguyen

Data Scientist
MSc
Medicine & Health
School of Population Health

Loc Nguyen is a Data Scientist at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) within the School of Population Health, specialising in natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) for real-world healthcare applications.

He currently leads the development and evaluation of AI systems for automated ICD-11 external cause coding as part of the National Injury Surveillance for Actionable Research – Emergency Department (NISAR-ED) project. His work focuses on transforming unstructured clinical text into high-quality, structured data to support national injury surveillance and evidence-based policy.

Loc has prior experience in developing explainable AI models and data systems for environmental and biological applications at the Climate Change Cluster (UTS). His research interests lie in explainable AI, multimodal machine learning, and the deployment of scalable, trustworthy AI systems in healthcare and sustainability domains.
Email

Loc.nguyen2@unsw.edu.au

  • Journal articles | 2025

    Nguyen, Q. L., Lai, H. N., Nguyen, H. T., Pham, L. L., Herdean, A., Kuzhiumparambil, U., ... & Vo, P. H. (2025). Explainable artificial intelligence for predicting rare earth elements leaching from secondary resources. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 139479.

    Nguyen, M. H., Duong, M. P. T., Nguyen, Q. L., La, V. P., & Hoang, V. Q. (2025). In search of value: the intricate impacts of benefit perception, knowledge, and emotion about climate change on marine protection support. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 15(1), 124-142.

    Journal articles | 2024

    Nguyen, Q. L., Nguyen, M. H., La, V. P., Bhatti, M. I., & Hoang, V. Q. (2024). Enterprise’s strategies to improve financial capital under a climate change scenario–Evidence of the leading country. Npj Climate Action, 3(1), 38.

    Journal articles | 2023

    Nguyen, M. H., Nguyen, M. H. T., Jin, R., Nguyen, Q. L., La, V. P., Le, T. T., & Vuong, Q. H. (2023). Preventing the separation of urban humans from nature: the impact of pet and plant diversity on biodiversity loss belief. Urban Science, 7(2), 46.

    Journal articles | 2022

    Vuong, Q. H., Le, T. T., Khuc, Q. V., Nguyen, Q. L., & Nguyen, M. H. (2022). Escaping from air pollution: Exploring the psychological mechanism behind the emergence of internal migration intention among urban residents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12233.