Tin (Kevin) Nguyen

๐ŸŽ“ I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Auburn University, working with Prof. Anh Totti Nguyen and Prof. Chirag Agarwal at UVA.
My research focuses on interpretable-by-design, agentic AI, and HCI.
Email: ngthanhtinqn@gmail.com or ttn0011@auburn.edu

I'm looking for postdoc, internship, and full-time opportunities around LLMs, VLMs, Agents ๐Ÿ‘€ Please email me if you think I'd be a good fit: ngthanhtinqn@gmail.com or ttn0011@auburn.edu ๐Ÿค—

Education

๐ŸŽ“ Auburn University
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
AL, U.S. · Aug. 2022 – present
Advisor: Anh (Totti) Nguyen
Teaching Assistant: Formal Languages, Machine Learning, Security
๐ŸŽ“ Sejong University
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
Seoul, S. Korea · 2020 – 2022
Advisor: Kim Yong-Guk
๐ŸŽ“ University of Science
B.A. in Computer Science and Engineering
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · 2015 – 2019
Advisor: Ngoc Quoc Ly

Experience

๐Ÿ’ผ Aikyam Lab, University of Virginia
Graduate Research Assistant
VA, U.S. · May – Aug. 2026
Advisor: Chirag Agarwal · Project: Multimodal Agentic Models + Trustworthy AI
๐Ÿ’ผ AIOZ Co., Ltd.
AI Engineer
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · 2019 – 2020
Built a license plate recognition system and a ball tracking system
๐Ÿ’ผ Gumi Co., Ltd.
AI Engineer Intern
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · 2018 – 2019
Built Japanese character recognition for bills and documents

Honors & Awards

๐Ÿ† Tinker Research Grant
Aug. 2026
Tinker · Awarded $5,000 for compute/API credits
๐Ÿ† GSC Travel Fellowship
Dec. 2025
Auburn University Graduate School Council · Awarded $400 to support conference travel
๐Ÿ† Tinker Promotion
Nov. 2025
Tinker · Awarded $150 in credits
๐Ÿ† 1st Prize, AICovidVN Challenge
2021
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Introduced Fruit-CoV, a framework detecting SARS-CoV-2 through cough sounds (~$4,300 prize)

Publications my favorites () | others ()

PageGuide paper figure
Agent Human-Computer Interaction
PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information
Tin Nguyen, Thang T. Truong, Runtao Zhou, Trung Bui, Chirag Agarwal, Anh Totti Nguyen
Arxiv, 2026
Project Page Arxiv Code
HoT paper figure
Prompt Engineering Human-Computer Interaction
HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs
Tin Nguyen*, Logan Bolton*, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Trung Bui, and Anh Totti Nguyen
TMLR, 2026
Also accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning (MAR) โ€” Oral
Website Code Paper
PEEB paper figure
Interpretable-by-Design Human-Computer Interaction
PEEB: Part-based Image Classifiers with an Explainable and Editable Language Bottleneck
Thang Pham*, Peijie Chen*, Tin Nguyen*, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Anh Nguyen
NAACL, 2024 Findings
Code Paper Demo Video
VizDoom navigation figure
Vision-Language-Action
Coarse-To-Fine Fusion for Language Grounding in 3D Navigation
Thanh Tin Nguyen*, Anh H. Vo*, Soo-Mi Choi, Yong-Guk Kim
Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), Jul 4, 2023
Video Code Paper
A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin, Ran Ji, Thaddรคus Wiedemer, Qingying Gao, Dezhi Luo, Yaoyao Qian, Lianyu Huang, Zelong Hong, Jiahui Ge, Qianli Ma, Hang He, Yifan Zhou, Lingzi Guo, Lantao Mei, Jiachen Li, Hanwen Xing, Tianqi Zhao, Fengyuan Yu, Weihang Xiao, Yizheng Jiao, Jianheng Hou, Danyang Zhang, Pengcheng Xu, Boyang Zhong, Zehong Zhao, Gaoyun Fang, John Kitaoka, Yile Xu, Hua Xu, Kenton Blacutt, Tin Nguyen, Siyuan Song, Haoran Sun, Shaoyue Wen, Linyang He, Runming Wang, Yanzhi Wang, Mengyue Yang, Ziqiao Ma, Raphaรซl Milliรจre, Freda Shi, Nuno Vasconcelos, Daniel Khashabi, Alan Yuille, Yilun Du, Ziming Liu, Bo Li, Dahua Lin, Ziwei Liu, Vikash Kumar, Yijiang Li, Lei Yang, Zhongang Cai, Hokin Deng
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ICML, 2026
I contributed two tasks evaluating object counting and physical reasoning capabilities of video-language models.
Paper Website EvalKit Dataset
Korean patent figure
Coarse-to-Fine Fusion Method and Apparatus for Language-Command-Based Virtual Space Navigation (Korean Patent)
Yong-Guk Kim, Soo-Mi Choi, Anh H. Vo, Tin Nguyen
Korean Patent No. 10-2979119 — Registered Jun 2026
Certificate

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