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.










