2019 – 2023 || JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science.

2018 – 2019 || JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

M.A. in Cognitive Science.

2013 – 2017 || TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY

B.S. in Psychology and Cognitive Science.

• Ph.D. in Cognitive Science Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University (valued at up to $536,300).
• Completed her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University 1.5 years ahead of schedule.
• Recipient of the "Best Original Research Article of 2022 by an Untenured Scientist Award" - which is typically reserved for untenured professors.
• Awarded the "Science of Learning Fellowship" from Johns Hopkins University for two consecutive years. This prestigious fellowship is granted to only one graduate student in the department each year, totaling up to $180,000.
• Published Author & Literary Award Winner: Second prize in the "Van Hoc Tuoi 20" literary contest hosted by Tre Publishing House.
• Linguistic Society of America Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics grant (2020).

Human Factors Consultant, SEA, Ltd 2023 - Present

• Deliver expert consultation in litigation involving human factors, with casework spanning premises liability, product liability, personal injury, and workplace injury.
• Apply advanced knowledge of behavioral science and human cognition to analyze perception, attention, decision making, and user–product interactions in accident scenarios.
• Oversee multiple projects concurrently, manage extensive volumes of legal documentation, and ensure compliance with professional standards and strict deadlines.
• Author technical reports and provide expert testimony in depositions and trials.

Research Scientist intern, PRINCIPAL GLOBAL INVESTMENT Summer 2022

• Identified, extracted, and annotated data from text sources for language analysis.
• Developed text classifiers and language models to inform the management of $30 billion in assets.
• Utilized advanced computational techniques, including language models, to provide data-
  driven investment recommendations.
  Human Factors Engineer Intern, Insulet Corporation Summer 2021
• Conducted comprehensive literature reviews, interviews, and usability studies to identify user pain points and assess potential misuse of medical devices.
• Improved instructional materials to ensure user comprehension and acquire FDA approval.

Lab Manager, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND BRAIN LAB, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 2017 – 2018

• Administered cognitive and language assessments to different populations
• Oversaw the lab’s research process to ensure data quality and timely deliverables of projects.
• Developed the lab's data analysis protocol and technical strategy for research projects, including complex setups with synchronized data streams.

1. Nguyen, A. (2024). What Were They Thinking? The Science Behind Human Behavior. Maryland Defense Line;
2. Nguyen, A. (2023). The Language of Safety: A Dive into the Framework of Risk Communication. USLAW Fall 2023 Magazine, 24–25;
3. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2022). The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency. Language Acquisition, Vol. 29(1), 79–104;
4. McMillan, B., Myers, J., Nguyen, A., Robinson, D., & Kennard, M. (2022). Analysis and Comparison of Natural Language Processing Algorithms as Applied to Bitcoin Conversations on Social Media. Journal of Investing, Vol. 31(2);
5. Nguyen, A., & Wilson, C. (2022). Modeling the acquisition of question variants in English. Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2, 563–573;
6. Nguyen, A., & Wilson, C. (2021). Learning the surface structure of wh-questions in English and French with a non-parametric Bayesian model. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (4), 47;
7. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2020). Covert movement in English probing wh-questions. Proceedings of Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting, 5(1), 180–186;
8. Bernard, J., Nguyen, A., Hausman, H., et al. (2020). Shaky scaffolding: Age differences in cerebellar activation revealed through activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping, 1–27

Presentations

1. Nguyen, A. (2024). Warnings and Labels in the Digital Age. Guest Lecture for UW–Madison’s “Using Warnings and Instructions to Increase Safety and Reduce Liability” course;
2. Bakry, M., Nguyen, A., & Troxel, T. (2024). You’ve Been Warned! The Future Is Coming for Labels. DRI Product Liability Conference, Denver, CO;
3. Zhu, Z., & Nguyen, A. (2022). The interaction between structure, discourse, and prosody in wh-questions in English. Chicago Linguistic Society 58, Chicago, IL;
4. Nguyen, A., & Wilson, C. (2022). Modeling the acquisition of question variants in English. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington DC;
5. Nguyen, A. (2021). The acquisition of wh-question variants. University of Maryland, Linguistics Department;
6. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2021). The acquisition of English wh-in-situ. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA;
7. Nguyen, A., & Legendre, G. (2020). Testing syntactic simplicity: wh-in-situ vs. fronted wh-questions in L1 acquisition. Many Paths to Language Conference, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands (Acceptance rate: 23.5%);
8. Nguyen, A., Howe, W., & Legendre, G. (2020). Prosody as the main cue to differentiate wh-in-situ questions in acquisition. Old World Conference on Phonology, Spain;
9. Nguyen, A. (2020). The acquisition of English wh-in-situ. Brown Bag, Johns Hopkins University;
10. Nguyen, A., Howe, W., & Legendre, G. (2020). English-speaking children’s acquisition of wh-in-situ. GALANA 6, Iceland;
11. Weng, Y.-L., Nguyen, A., Ryskin, R., & Qi, Z. (2020). Neural representation of syntactic prediction. Society for Neurobiology of Language;
12. Weng, Y.-L., Nguyen, A., Ryskin, R., & Qi, Z. (2020). Prediction and sentence ambiguity resolution. CUNY Conference, MA;
13. Schneider, J., Arnon, I., Nguyen, A., Mendez, K., & Qi, Z. (2019). Does prior language experience hinder statistical learning? Boston University;
14. Schneider, J., Weng, Y., Kozloff, V., Nguyen, A., & Qi, Z. (2019). Neural sensitivity to speech distribution information. Neurobiology of Language, Finland;
15. Qi, Z., Nguyen, A., Ozernov-Palchik, O., et al. (2018). Statistical learning in reading development. Boston University;
16. Nguyen, A., Sanchez Araujo, Y., Georgan, W., et al. (2018). Reliability of statistical learning tasks. Psychonomic Society, New Orleans;
17. Kozloff, V., Nguyen, A., Arciuli, J., & Qi, Z. (2018). Statistical learning in a noisy environment. Boston University;
18. Mendez, K., Nguyen, A., Kozloff, V., & Qi, Z. (2018). Role of native language in statistical learning. University of Delaware;
19. Nguyen, A., & Kozloff, V. (2017). Statistical learning and language. University of Delawar