Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

Ngoc Cuong Nguyen is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a member of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering. His research focuses on computational mechanics, numerical simulation, and advanced numerical methods such as hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for multi-scale and multi-physics problems.

Education:

• PhD in High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems (2005), National University of Singapore
• BEng in Aeronautical Engineering (2001), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

Research Interests:

• Computational Mechanics, Molecular Mechanics, Nanophotonics
• Numerical Simulation & Optimization, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning
• Reduced Basis Methods, High-Order Methods (e.g., HDG), Uncertainty Quantification

Key Projects:

• Development of HDG methods for fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, and electromagnetics
• Plasmonic nanostructure simulations using quantum hydrodynamic models
• Space weather modeling via GPU-accelerated HDG approaches
• Optimization of photonic crystals and nanostructured materials
• Large-eddy simulation (LES) of hypersonic flows and buffet phenomena

Labs & Teams: Active contributor to the MIT Center for Computational Engineering, leading projects in numerical methods, computational fluid dynamics, and interdisciplinary applications of advanced simulation techniques.