Thanh obtained a B.E in Mapping and an MSc in Cartography, Remote Sensing, and Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology. With a strong background in GIS, Thanh joined the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), Hanoi in 2008 for making the Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases. He completed his PhD at the University of Montpelier 2 in 2015 on the study of dengue transmission in Hanoi using computational approaches such as spatial statistics, machine learning and phylo-geography. He currently works at OUCRU as a postdoctoral researcher and will be focusing on bioinformatics/machine learning to study antimicrobial resistance.