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!
news
Oct 25, 2024 | One paper was accepted at CoRL 2024 Workshop Differentiable Optimization Everywhere. |
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Oct 01, 2024 | One paper was submitted to ICLR 2025. |
Jul 20, 2024 | Our work was featured on the Bitcraze blog – the developers of the Crazyflie. |
Jul 16, 2024 | We were the Runner-up of Best Poster Award, IEEE TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics. |
Jun 28, 2024 | Two papers were accepted at two RSS 2024 Workshops: Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics (Spotlight Talk), and Learning for Assistive Robotics. |
May 20, 2024 | TinyMPC won the Best Paper Award in Automation at ICRA 2024. |
Apr 05, 2024 | TinyMPC was selected as a finalist for 03 ICRA Paper Awards. |
Mar 22, 2024 | TinyMPC with new capabilities is now available on arXiv. |
Mar 15, 2024 | I received the Best Poster Award at the MS Research Symposium with the TinyMPC poster. |
Jan 28, 2024 | TinyMPC was accepted to ICRA 2024. |
Oct 30, 2023 | My undergraduate research on formation control and RL was accepted to IJRNC. |
Jul 01, 2023 | I participated in the ETH Robotics Summer School. 🤖 |
Jul 01, 2023 | I started my ETH Robotics Student Fellowship at RSL. 🦿 |
May 08, 2023 | My team advanced to the semi-finals of the F1TENTH competition. 🏁 |
Sep 01, 2022 | I joined Zac Manchester in the Robotic Exploration (REx) Lab. |
Aug 29, 2022 | I started my graduate study at Carnegie Mellon University. |
selected publications
- ICRATinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained MicrocontrollersInternational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024🏆 Best Paper Award in Automation at ICRA 2024
🏆 Finalists of Best Conference Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award at ICRA 2024
🏆 Best Poster Award at CMU MechE Symposium ~ 10%
🏆 Runner-up of Best Poster Award, TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics ~ 10%