Long Nguyen is Professor of Statistics, and by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering 
and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He studied computer
science, mathematics and statistics at Pohang University of Science and Technology,
Arizona State University, and University of California, Berkeley, where he received
the PhD degree in computer science in 2007. He joined Michigan in 2009. 

Nguyen's early research experience started in artificial intelligence (learning with 
Professor Subbarao Kambhampati), statistical machine learning (with Professors 
Michael I. Jordan and Martin Wainwright), and then Bayesian statistics (with Professors
Alan Gelfand and Jim Clark) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Statistical and Applied
Mathematical Institute and Duke University. His long-term interests include nonparametric
Bayesian statistics, optimal transport and statistical inference, and ML with 
complex spatiotemporal models. Nguyen has served or is serving as associate editor of 
the Annals of Statistics, the Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 
Bayesian Analysis, Journal of Machine Learning Research, SIAM Journal on Mathematics 
of Data Science, and Journal of American Statistical Association. He has also 
served in various roles at professional societies such as the International 
Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), the American Statistical Association (ASA) 
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Nguyen received a bronze medal in the IMO highschool math competition representing 
Vietnam. He was grateful for a generous POSCO scholarship which provided support for
his undergraduate study in Korea. He was given the Leon O. Chua award from UC Berkeley for 
his PhD work, the IEEE Signal Processing society's Young Author best paper award, 
two-time best paper awards from the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 
and the CAREER award from the NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences. He has given 
keynote addresses at Vietnam Congress on Statistics and Probability, the Pacific-Asia 
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference, the International Conference on Bayesian 
Nonparametrics, and the ISBA O'Bayes conference.  He is elected fellow of the IMS, 
the ASA, and a distinguished associate member of Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study 
in Mathematics.