Tan Nguyen
Assistant Professor Of Mathematics
Singapore
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Top SchoolTan Nguyen is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore and founder of the Mathematical AI (MAI) Group, where his research bridges deep learning, optimization, differential equations, and statistics to build robust, interpretable, and efficient AI. With a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Rice University and a postdoc at UCLA working with Stanley Osher, he blends rigorous theory with practical impact demonstrated by internships at Amazon AI and NVIDIA Research. His work emphasizes principled approaches—optimization, differential-equation modeling, and statistical foundations—to tackle interpretability, robustness, and scalability in modern ML. A recipient of prestigious awards including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the CRA CIFellows postdoctoral fellowship, he also organized the first ICLR workshop on integrating deep models with differential equations. Based in Singapore, he maintains active industry ties (including a Qualcomm technical consultancy) while mentoring students to push “DeepLEAD” toward RISE AI: Robust, Interpretable, Scalable, and Efficient systems. Notably, his trajectory spans hands-on engineering (from VBA tools for industry to AFM experiments as an undergraduate) to cutting-edge mathematical AI research, reflecting rare breadth across theory and practice.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning at Rice UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, 4.0/4.0, Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, 4.0/4.0 at Houston Community College
English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (19)
mutation8
julia8
mxnet8
portable8
dataflow7
javascript7
dep7
scala7
python7
golang6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
scheduler6
neural-network5
data-science5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
superliuwanjia/understand_convnets
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:191 pushes in 2 days
minhtannguyen/transformer-mgk
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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