Tin (Kevin) Nguyen
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at
Auburn University, working with
Prof. Anh Totti Nguyen and Prof. Chirag Agarwal at UVA. I work on Explainable AI, and Human-AI Interaction. I am particularly interested in improving human-AI workflows, and measuring frontier AI performance.
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Arxiv, 2026
PageGuide is a browser extension that acts as an in-page navigation agent: given a user's question, it locates the supporting evidence on the current webpage (DOM or non-DOM elements) and highlights exactly where the answer comes from, instead of leaving the user to skim the whole page.
TMLR, 2026
Also accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning (MAR) —
Oral
Highlighted Chain of Thought (HoT) outputs XML-style evidence tags in each reasoning step, linking conclusions to specific input spans so users can trace why an answer is produced.
NAACL, 2024
PEEB is a part-based, interpretable-by-design image classifier that predicts an object's class by first describing its visible parts in natural language (e.g., wing color, beak shape) and matching those descriptions against a text-conditioned part detector. As a result, users can inspect exactly which part attributes drove a prediction and edit the class descriptions to correct or adapt the model without retraining.
Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), Jul 4, 2023
This work studies vision-and-language navigation in 3D environments built on VizDoom, where an agent must follow a natural-language instruction to reach a target location.
ICML, 2026
I contributed two tasks evaluating object counting and physical reasoning capabilities of video-language models.
Korean Patent No. 10-2979119 — Registered Jun 2026
Expert Systems with Applications, 2023
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant for Formal Languages, Machine Learning, and Security at Auburn University
- Teaching Robotics for kids at K-6 AI Club at Auburn University
Mentoring
- Truong Thoi Thang, CS PhD student at Auburn University, 2026-Now
Academic Service
- Reviewer for ARR Rolling Review (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL), UIST, HAI, Knowledge-based Systems, Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Agents (NeurIPS 2026)
Education
Auburn University
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Anh (Totti) Nguyen
Research: Explainable AI and Human-AI Interaction
Teaching Assistant: Formal Languages, Machine Learning, Secure Software Process
Sejong University
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Kim Yong-Guk
Research: Robot Navigation
University of Science
B.A. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Ngoc Quoc Ly
Research: Computer Vision and Robotics
Work Experience
Aikyam Lab, University of Virginia
Graduate Research Assistant
Advisor: Chirag Agarwal · Project: Multimodal Agentic Models + Trustworthy AI
AIOZ Co., Ltd.
AI Engineer
Built a license plate recognition system and a ball tracking system
Gumi Co., Ltd.
AI Engineer Intern
Built Japanese character recognition for bills and documents
Honors & Awards
Tinker Research Grant
Tinker · Awarded $5,000 for compute/API credits
GSC Travel Fellowship
Auburn University Graduate School Council · Awarded $400 to support conference travel
Tinker Promotion
Tinker · Awarded $150 in credits
1st Prize, AICovidVN Challenge
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Introduced Fruit-CoV, a framework detecting SARS-CoV-2 through cough sounds (~$4,300 prize)
Skills
Programming Languages
AI & ML
Frameworks & Libraries
Database & Platforms