Tien Khai Nguyen

Tien Khai Nguyen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University (NC State), holding the title of NCSU Faculty Scholar since 2023. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Padova, Italy, followed by postdoctoral research at SISSA-ISAS (Trieste) and a position as S. Chowla Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University.

His research focuses on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Optimal Control, Differential Games, and Mean Field Games, with contributions to nonsmooth analysis and geometric measure theory. Current funding includes NSF grant DMS 2154201 supporting work on control and optimization.

Key awards include the John Franke Faculty Award for Teaching (2021) and Editor’s Choice Article in Mathematical Control and Related Fields (2024). He serves as editor for the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems and organizes the Differential Equations/Nonlinear Analysis Seminar at NC State.

His work bridges theoretical analysis (e.g., transversality theorems, viscosity solutions) with applications in optimal control and multi-agent systems. Active research themes include generic properties of solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations and singular phenomena in hyperbolic conservation laws.