About me

My name is Minh Nguyen (Minh Van-Hoang Nguyen, Vietnamese: Nguyễn Văn Hoàng Minh) and I am currently a first-year PhD student at Caltech in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Caltech working with Professor Franca Hoffmann.

Previously, I studied Mathematics at Michigan State University, where I work with Professor Jun Kitagawa on optimal transport and gradient flows.

Research Interests:

• Applied Analysis
• Optimal Transport and Partial Differential Equations
• Machine Learning and Computational Mathematics

News:

• 11/6/25: New preprint is now on arXiv. Check it out: link. Joint work with Ricardo Baptista, Franca Hoffmann and Ben Zhang. This is my first math paper!
• 7/20/25: My co-first author paper has been accepted into the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: link. Joint work with SLIM Group at MSU.

Personal Interests:

Outside of mathematics, I do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and support Manchester United!