Nguyen Mau Nam is a Professor of Mathematics at Portland State University. He has published more than 55 research articles and one book in convex analysis with applications to optimization theory and numerical algorithms. He has received several awards for his research including a best paper award by Journal of Global Optimization in 2021 and the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi Outstanding Researcher Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2015. His research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and Portland State University.