Quan Nguyen
Chairman And Chief Scientific Officer at VinMotion
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolQuan Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at USC and Chief Scientific Officer of VinMotion, bringing eight years of experience at the intersection of academia and humanoid robotics industry. A CMU PhD with a Best Dissertation Award and an MIT postdoc in biomimetic robotics, he develops learning and control methods for highly dynamic robots—spanning nonlinear control, trajectory optimization, adaptive control, and reinforcement learning. His research has earned top conference recognitions and broad media coverage, reflecting both technical rigor and public impact. Unusually, he balances deep theoretical work with product-driven leadership, having guided the development of Motion 1 at VinMotion while running USC’s Dynamic Robotics and Control Laboratory.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Automatic Control, Bachelor of Science - BS Automatic Control at Hanoi University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (82)
foundation-models10
pre-trained-model10
multimodal10
nlp10
multimodal-deep-learning10
language-modeling10
transformer-architecture10
pytorch10
llm10
vision-and-language10
language-understanding10
sentence-similarity10
zip9
scale9
transformer9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nv-quan/receipt-recognition
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Automatically extracts information from pictures of receipts.
Contributions:141 commits, 6 PRs, 104 pushes in 2 months
pythonpicturesreceiptsextractsscraper
nv-quan/machine-learning-in-c
May 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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