Khai Nguyen

I graduated from the MS in Mechanical Engineering–Research program at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy. I was advised by Zac Manchester as a member of the Robotic Exploration Lab, in the Robotics Institute. I worked with Jesus Tordesillas and Marco Hutter in the Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich within the Robotics Student Fellowship.

Previously, I graduated with a BS in Control Engineering and Automation–Talent Program from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. I have ~2 years of experience in autopilot systems with Viettel Aerospace Institute.

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research

My goal is to address fundamental challenges in robot control and learning by: (i) leveraging structure for efficient and generalizable modeling and decision making, (ii) closing the loop between offline design and online adaptation, and (iii) providing formal guarantees for decision making under uncertainty.

I’m open to exploring various theoretical and practical aspects of robotics, drawing on my background in control theory, differentiable optimization, and machine learning.

I am seeking PhD positions beginning Fall 2025!