Ngoc Cuong Nguyen is a principal research scientist in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include computational mechanics, molecular mechanics, nanophotonics, numerical simulation and optimization, scientific computing, and machine learning. His research projects focus on reduced basis methods for parametrized partial differential equations, hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for multi-scale multi-physics simulations, hypersonic flow simulations, large eddy simulations, space weather prediction, atomistic and molecular simulations, nanoplasmonics, bandgap optimization, parallel computing on distributed systems, GPU computing. He is an active contributor to open source projects.

Nguyen also serves as CHEFSI’s Computer Resource Team (CRT) Technical Contact, acting as the interface between CHEFSI and US Department of Energy high-performance computing facilities.