Thanh Nguyen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science at the University of Oregon. She completed her Postdoc in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2018. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2016. Her work in the area of Artificial Intelligence is motivated by real-world societal problems, particularly in the areas of Sustainability, Public Safety and Security, Cybersecurity, and Public Health. Her recent awards include Deployed Application Award (IAAI 2016) and Runner-up of the Best Innovative Application Paper Award (AAMAS 2016). Thanh has published extensively in several leading conferences in Artificial Intelligence, including IJCAI, AAAI, AAMAS, and GameSec. She has contributed to building the real-world wildlife-protection application PAWS (Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security), which has been extensively used by NGOs such as Panthera, Rimba, and the Wildlife Conversation Society in conservation areas in Malaysia and Uganda.