Dr Tien Nguyen is the co-lead of Curtin Gender Research Network and an Associate Lecturer in Management at Curtin Singapore where she teaches organisational behaviour, human resource management and strategic career design. She has over sixteen years of teaching experience across Singapore, Australia, Vietnam and the United States, at diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels.

Teaching predominantly international cohorts, Dr Nguyen designs classrooms that are inclusive and participatory. Her practice draws on relational pedagogy, student-centred learning and universal design for learning, and uses scaffolding, real-world case studies and personalised mentoring to help students build confidence, independence and professional readiness. She holds the Teaching Excellence University Associate Award and a Transnational Teaching Commendation from Curtin's Faculty of Business and Law, and Dean's Citations for Excellence in Tutoring from the University of Sydney.

Her research examines technology and AI adoption in business and management, the interaction between technology, equity and inclusion, and curriculum and assessment reform in the era of generative AI. She publishes in high quality journals, leading conferences, and editted books, supervises higher degree by research students, and has co-led and contributed to two DFAT-funded executive leadership programs (approx AUD 4 million) for the Vietnamese public sector.