Honors & Awards

2021- 2022

  • AMS Simons Travel Grant ($5,000).
  • Early-career AMS-NSF-Simons-ICM Travel Grant ($3,500).
  • Travel Award from the University of Michigan

2020- 2021

  • Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship, Wayne State University: two graduate students receive this award per academic year.
  • AMS Graduate Student Travel Grants.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award ($2,500).

2019- 2020

  • Paul Catlin, Ph.D. Endowed Memorial Scholarship Award, In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Ph.D. Program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2019- 2020.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award to attend The Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting (AN20), July 6-10, 2020, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Nominated (by Department of Mathematics) for the 2020 Garrett T. Heberlein Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students, Wayne State University.
  • Travel Award for the East Coast Optimization Meeting 2020.
  • Travel Award by National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMS-1512846: Second-Order Variational Analysis and Its Applications, September 1, 2015-February 29, 2020.
  • Travel Award by REDES grant number REDI170200 for School and Workshop Control of State-Constrained Dynamical Systems, Chile.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.

2018- 2019

  • The M.F. Janowitz Scholarship, In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Ph.D. Program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2018- 2019.
  • The Paul Weiss Award in Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in the Masters Program, Wayne State University.
  • Travel Award by International Conference on Continuous Optimization 2019, Berlin, Germany.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), July 15-19, 2019 in Valencia, Spain ($2500). Funding Competitive: Yes.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend the 2019 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications in China. Funding Competitive: Yes.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University. 
  • Travel Award by MCAIM and SIAM for the 2019 SIAM Great Lakes Section Meeting.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
  • M.A. in Mathematical Statistics (Fall 2018).

2017- 2018

  • The Maurice J. Zelonka Endowed Scholarship, In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Ph.D. Program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2017- 2018.
  • The Paul Catlin Endowed Mathematics Scholarship, In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in the Ph.D. Program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2017- 2018.
  • Travel Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS Award 1743826. Funding Competitive: Yes. 
  • Travel Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant No. 15RT0462. Funding Competitive: Yes.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
  • Second Place Prize (Poster), Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium, Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Wayne State University. 
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA.

2016- 2017

  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University
  • Travel support, The Seventh Ohio River Analysis Meeting, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25-26, 2017.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA.

2011- 2015

  • Award for excellent mathematical students, National Program for the Development of Mathematics by Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) in 2014-2015.
  • Award of ranking the 1st of  Department of mathematics, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam.
  • Government’s Scholarships for outstanding undergraduate student academic years: 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015.
  • Certificate completion of student’s scientific research project at University level Academic year 2013-2014, project name: “Some problems of Non-commutative Positive Representation Theorems”.
  • Certificate for the 2013 National Mathematical Olympiad in Algebra for undergraduate students held in Duy Tan University, Vietnam.
  • Top 5 excellent students at National Summer School of Mathematics for Young Students, held by Institute of Mathematics-Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in 2013 and 2014.

Research Grants & Funding

$405,531
Optimal Control of Second-Order Sweeping Processes and Applications Under review NSF Applied Mathematics, collaborative proposal with Prof. Trang Nguyen (South Dakota State University) · PI · received 11/17/2025
$25,000
NSF Conference Grant — 2023 Midwest Optimization Meeting Awarded Co-PI · NSF · 03/10/2023 – 08/16/2023
AY 25–26
Assigned Time for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Awarded San Diego State University · “Optimization Research, Data Science Curriculum Development, and External Grant Applications for Student Support.”

Research of Dao Nguyen has been partly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants DMS-1808978, DMS-1743826 and DMS-1512846, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant 15RT0462, and the REDES grant REDI170200.

Awards, Fellowships & Honors

2021 – 2022
  • AMS Simons Travel Grant ($5,000), 07/2022 – 07/2024.
  • Early-career AMS-NSF-Simons-ICM Travel Grant ($3,500).
  • Travel Award, University of Michigan.
2020 – 2021
  • Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship, Wayne State University (two graduate students receive this award per academic year).
  • AMS Graduate Student Travel Grants.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award ($2,500).
2019 – 2020
  • Paul Catlin, Ph.D. Endowed Memorial Scholarship Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Ph.D. program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University.
  • Nominee, 2020 Garrett T. Heberlein Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Students, Wayne State University (nominated by the Department of Mathematics).
  • SIAM Student Travel Award to attend the Second Joint SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting (AN20), Toronto, Canada, July 6–10, 2020.
  • AMS Graduate Student Travel Award, Joint Mathematics Meetings.
  • Travel Award, East Coast Optimization Meeting 2020.
  • Travel Award, National Science Foundation, Grant No. DMS-1512846 (Second-Order Variational Analysis and Its Applications).
  • Travel Award, REDES grant REDI170200, School and Workshop on Control of State-Constrained Dynamical Systems, Chile.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
2018 – 2019
  • M.F. Janowitz Scholarship in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Ph.D. program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University.
  • Paul Weiss Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Master’s program, Wayne State University.
  • SIAM Student Travel Award (NSF) to attend ICIAM 2019, Valencia, Spain ($2,500).
  • SIAM Student Travel Award (NSF) to attend the 2019 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, China ($2,500).
  • Travel Award, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) Berlin, for ICCOPT 2019 (International Conference on Continuous Optimization), Berlin, Germany.
  • Travel Award, MCAIM and SIAM, 2019 SIAM Great Lakes Section Meeting.
  • Graduate Research Fellowship, Wayne State University.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
  • M.A. in Mathematical Statistics (Fall 2018).
2017 – 2018
  • Maurice J. Zelonka Endowed Scholarship in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Ph.D. program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University.
  • Paul Catlin Endowed Mathematics Scholarship in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Ph.D. program, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University.
  • Second Place Prize (Poster), Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium, March 6, 2018, Wayne State University.
  • Travel Award, National Science Foundation, DMS Award 1743826.
  • Travel Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Grant No. 15RT0462.
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
2016 – 2017
  • Graduate Student Professional Travel Awards, Wayne State University.
  • Travel support, The Seventh Ohio River Analysis Meeting, University of Cincinnati, March 25–26, 2017.
2011 – 2015
  • Award for Excellent Mathematical Students, National Program for the Development of Mathematics (VIASM), 2014–2015.
  • Ranked 1st in the Department of Mathematics and Award for the most outstanding graduate in Mathematics Teaching Education (Valedictorian), Quy Nhon University, Vietnam, June 2015.
  • Government Scholarships for outstanding undergraduate students, 2011–2012, 2012–2013, 2013–2014, 2014–2015.
  • Certificate of completion of a student scientific research project (university level, 2013–2014): “Some problems of Non-commutative Positive Representation Theorems.”
  • Certificate, 2013 National Mathematical Olympiad in Algebra for undergraduate students, Duy Tan University, Vietnam.
  • Top 5 students, National Summer School of Mathematics for Young Students, Institute of Mathematics, VAST, 2013 and 2014.

Professional Memberships

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) · American Mathematical Society (AMS) · Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) · IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS)

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