I am Toan T. Nguyen, Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. I grew up as a coffee farmer in a small village in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, before being sent off to Saigon for my undergraduate study in mathematics at Vietnam National University of Science. I completed my Master’s degree in 2006 under Dung Le at University of Texas at San Antonio and obtained my Ph.D. in 2009 at Indiana University under Kevin Zumbrun, after which, I held an Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie, and a Prager assistant professorship at Brown University. I was awarded an AMS Centennial Fellowship in 2018 (AMS News), a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics in 2019, and the 2022 T. Brooke Benjamin Prize in Nonlinear Waves by the SIAM (SIAM News, AMS News).
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