Ms. Nguyet (Moon) Nguyen

Ms. Nguyet (Moon) Nguyen

Associate Professor

Mathematics & Statistics

Cafaro Hall 643

phone: (330) 941-1805

ntnguyen01@ysu.edu

ntnguyen01.people.ysu.edu

Bio

Dr. Nguyet (Moon) Nguyen received her Bachelor of Mathematical Education in 1998 and Master of Mathematics and Science in 2002 at Hanoi International University of Education in Vietnam. She taught mathematics at Nguyen Tat Thanh high school in Hanoi for eight years before moving to America. Dr. Nguyen earned a Master and PhD degree of financial mathematics at Florida State University in 2011 and 2014, respectively. She has been teaching mathematics at Youngstown State University since 2014.
Dr. Nguyen was promoted to associate professor in 2020 at Youngstown State University. Her research interests are using financial models to solve real-life problems such as predict stock prices, forecast weather, and invest in stock market.

Research Interests

Dr. Moon research interests are using financial models to solve real-life problems such as predict stock prices, forecast weather, and invest in stock market.

Teaching Interests

Predictive Modeling, Actuarial Sciences, Statistics, and Mathematics.

• Education

  • 2014

    Ph D, Finacial Mathematics

    Florida State University

    Dissertation/Thesis Title — " Fast Quasi-Monte Carlo for Acceptance-Rejection Methods and Its Applications"

  • 2011

    MS, Financial Mathematics

    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

    Dissertation/Thesis Title — " Variance Gamma Model for Option Pricing"

  • 2002

    MS, Mathematics

    HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

    Dissertation/Thesis Title — " Holomorphic Mappings on Complex Manifolds"

  • 1998

    BS, Mathematical Education

    HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

• Intellectual Contributions

  • 2018

    "Using the Hidden Markov Model to Improve the Hull-White Model for Short Rate"

    T. Wakefield, N. Nguyen, D. Nguyen

    International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, volume 9, p. 54-59