Chi-Nguyen Tran

I’m a final-year B.Sc. student in Artificial Intelligence at VNUHCM, University of Science (HCMUS), and AI R&D Lead at Realtime Robotics.

I am doing research in robotics. My goal is to help robots understand what is around them, know where they are, and work out how to act, and whether it is safe to act, when their surroundings change. In the real world, light, weather and surroundings keep changing and sensors get noisy, so a model that scores well on test data can still fail once deployed. I work on models that hold up in those conditions and are light enough to run on the small computers robots carry:

• Perceive and localize. Robots that keep recognising where they are when the weather and the scene change.
• Act. Agents that act reliably on camera input distorted in ways they never saw in training.
• Test. Finding the road scenarios most likely to break a self-driving car.
• Next. Teams of robots that learn whom to trust, and vision-language-action models for acting on what they see.

I am looking for PhD positions starting Fall 2027 in robotics.

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