Education

• Ph.D.  in Applied Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, 2011.
• M.Sc. in Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, 2010.
• B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Science-Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, 2004.

Research Interests

Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Nonlinear Waves, Applied Probability and Stochastic Differential Equations.

Publications

• Articles published in peer-refereed Journals 

1. A. Peleg, Q.M. Nguyen and Y. Chung, Cross-talk dynamics of optical solitons in a broadband Kerr nonlinear system with weak cubic loss, Physical Review A, Vol. 82, 053830 (2010).

2.  Q.M. Nguyen and A. Peleg, Resolving the Raman-induced cross frequency shift in fast optical soliton collisions, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 27, 1985 (2010).

3.  Q. M. Nguyen and A. Peleg, Deterministic Raman crosstalk effects in amplified wavelength division multiplexing transmission, Optics Communications, Vol. 283, 3500 (2010).

4.  A. Peleg, Y. Chung, T. Dohnal, and Q.M. Nguyen, Diverging probability density functions for flat-top solitary waves, Physical Review E,  Vol. 80, 026602 (2009).

• Other publications

1. Dissertation: Effects of randomness, dissipation and interaction on solitons of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and related nonlinear wave models, SUNY Buffalo (2011).

2. A. Peleg and Q. M. Nguyen, Stability of Amplified DPSK WDM Transmission against Raman Crosstalk Effects, In Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, San Diego, California, USA (2010).

3. A. Bui, Q. Nguyen, A. Tran and K. Vo, On the existence of solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations with unbounded coefficient,  Journal of Science and Technology Development, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, 9, 17 (2006).
(undergraduate research, supported by VNU Research Funding

Honors and Awards

1. SIAM Student Travel Award (for SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2010).

2. The Melva Behrns Award, SUNY at Buffalo, USA (2010).

3. Elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Graduate School, SUNY Buffalo, USA (2009-2010).

4. Graduate Assistantship (Ph.D. program), SUNY at Buffalo, USA (2006-2011, about $28,000.00 per year)

Teaching Experience

2006-2011: State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

Instructor (2011): Calculus I (Mathematical Analysis For Management).
Duties: Design syllabus, write and give lectures, make and grade the homework, quizzes and exams.
Teaching Assistant (2006-2010):

• Undergraduate courses: Calculus I, II.
• Graduate courses: Probability Theory, Advanced Calculus, Survey of Partial Differential Equations, Introduction to Numerical Analysis I.

Duties: Lead recitation, help students with homeworks and/or grade homeworks, exams.

Professional Skills

• Numerical and Programming: Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, Fortran, C/C++.
• Experiences in running numerical simulations on the computer cluster in the Center for Computational Research, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA.
• Applications: TEX, LATEX, Microsoft Office.
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux.

Employment

2012-present: Lecturer, International University, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2006-2011: Instructor, Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
2005-2011: Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2005:  Teaching Assistant, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Conferences and Seminars

1. New York Conference on Applied Mathematics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA, April 2011. Talk: Pulse dynamics in a multichannel optical waveguide with weak cubic loss.

2. Applied, Industrial and Financial Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Canada, February 2011. Invited talk: Pulse dynamics in a multichannel optical waveguide (Host: Prof. Dmitry Pelinovsky).

3.  Applied Mathematics Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA, February 2011. Talk: Pulse dynamics in a multichannel optical waveguide.

4. SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2010. Invited talk: Resolving the Raman-induced cross-frequency shift in soliton collisions.

3. IMA PI Summer Program: Computational Wave Propagation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, June 2010. Talk: The fast optical soliton collisions in the presence of delayed Raman response.

4. Applied Math Days, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, March 2010. Talk: Stability of Raman-induced amplitude dynamics in multichannel optical fiber transmission systems.

5. New York Conference on Applied Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA, October 2009. Poster presented: A model of Raman crosstalk effects in massive amplified WDM transmission.

6. SIAM Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, July 2009. Invited talk: Dynamics of average Raman crosstalk effects in multichannel optical fiber communication systems.

7. Sigma Xi Research Day, University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York, USA, April 2009. Poster presented: The amplitude statistics of the cubic quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation.