Dr. Nguyen does archival research with a focus on financial accounting properties and corporate finance. Specific areas of interest include accounting comparability, accounting conservatism, macro forecasting ability of accounting information, management and analyst forecasts, firm network centrality, and climate impact on financial reporting. He has published extensively in premier and high-quality journals such as the Accounting Review, Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Journal Accounting, Auditing, and Finance. To help with his research on sustainability, he earned a certificate in Financial Sustainability Accounting from the International Sustainability Standards Board.

Dr. Nguyen contributes extensively to the profession by regularly presenting at and reviewing for prestigious academic conferences such as the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section midyear meeting, the American Accounting Association annual meeting, and the Hawaii Accounting Research Conference. He also reviews for many academic journals in which he has published. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and its Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, and passed all CPA exams in New York.

Dr. Nguyen has over 10 years of experience teaching at the college level. He enjoys teaching financial accounting at the undergraduate level (intro and intermediate) and graduate level (financial statement analysis). He is currently teaching Intermediate Accounting 2, one of the core courses in the accounting curriculum. He earned a certificate for the Brightman Master Teacher Program.