Tom Huynh

Mr. Tom Huynh

Associate Lecturer, IT

Details

  • College: School of Science, Engineering & Technology
  • Department: School of Science,Engineering & Tech
  • Campus: Saigon South Campus Vietnam
  • tom.huynh@rmit.edu.vn

About

Tom Huynh, M.Sc., is an Associate Lecturer at RMIT University Vietnam and a PhD Candidate at RMIT Melbourne. With a strong academic foundation in Artificial Intelligence (M.Sc., UNSW; B.Sc., University of Melbourne), he has built an interdisciplinary career spanning academia, industry, and research. 

 

His expertise lies in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Health Informatics, with publications in top-tier Q1 journals, including works cited by the World Health Organization. Tom’s recent research explores the transformative potential of large language models in healthcare, nursing, geriatrics, and infectious disease modelling. 

 

Alongside his academic contributions, he has secured competitive funding as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on projects that apply AI for healthcare transformation, medical documentation, aviation training, and authentic learning in software engineering. 

 

Tom also brings leadership and industry experience as a former Director of Machine Learning at CoderSchool and Head of Web Development at Weboptimizers (Australia). His work bridges theory and practice, advancing AI applications while contributing to teaching, innovation, and policy consultation in the field.

Research fields

  • 4205 Nursing
  • 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
  • 4204 Midwifery
  • 460208 Natural language processing
  • 460304 Computer vision

Teaching interests

Object-Oriented Programming
Fullstack Web Development
iOS Mobile App Development
DevOps
Data Science

Research interests

Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Generative AI
Large Language Model (LLM)