Matthew Nguyen is a M.Sc candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia, working on genomic analyses of bacterial and viral outbreaks. He is working on using genomic distance as a measure of impact for cross-border measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. He previously completed his B.Sc in Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University working on the development of genomic analysis tools for investigating outbreaks and using machine learning for understanding and predicting bacterial drug resistance.