Hoang-Nhat Nguyen

Nguyễn Hoàng Nhật

PhD Student

hoangnha001 [at] e.ntu.edu.sg

Biography

I'm a PhD student at MMLab, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where I am supervised by Prof. Chen Change Loy.

Previously, I spent nearly two years as a Research Engineer at Samsung R&D Vietnam. Before that, I served as a Research Assistant at CMC Research Institute, under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh, who was also my undergraduate thesis advisor at Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

You can call me Nhật, Nhat or Leo.

I am interested in Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning and Representation Learning.

[2026-01] Starting my PhD journey at NTU!

[2025-11] AHAN accepted to AAAI 2026.

	HippoCamp: Benchmarking Contextual Agents on Personal Computers Zhe Yang, Shulin Tian, Kairui Hu, Shuai Liu, Hoang-Nhat Nguyen, Yichi Zhang, Zujin Guo, Mengying Yu, Zinan Zhang, Jingkang Yang, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu Preprint, 2026 paper \| project page \| GitHub \| HuggingFace
	AHAN: Asymmetric Hierarchical Attention Network for Identical Twin Face Verification Hoang-Nhat Nguyen AAAI, 2026 paper \| poster
	A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Personalized Course Recommendations in Higher Education Thi-Hoa-Hue Nguyen, Hoang-Nhat Nguyen ICAIBD, 2025 paper
	Integrating Computational Advertising with Guaranteed Display for Enhanced Performance in Wi-Fi Marketing Ngoc Bach Pham, Linh Nguyen Duy, Bao Bui Quoc and Hoang-Nhat Nguyen RICE, 2024 paper

	Research Engineer \| Samsung R&D Vietnam March 2024 – December 2025
	Research Assistant \| CMC Research Institute October 2023 – March 2024
	AI Engineer Intern \| Varmeta November 2023 – March 2024

	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore PhD in Computer Science January 2026 – Present \| College of Computing and Data Science
	Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam B.S. in Mathematics and Informatics (Talented Program) October 2020 – August 2024 \| Excellent degree

2025

NTU PhD Research Scholarship

2024

Samsung Talent Program Scholarship - Awarded to top 1% applicants nationwide.

2024

Dean's List Scholarship - Type A: 1.5x semester tuition (awarded to top 4.5% at HUST).

2024

Top 4 Finalist at HUST - SoICT Hackathon

2023

First Prize Winner at SAMI AI Challenge

2022

Dean's List Scholarship - Type B: 1.2x semester tuition (awarded to top 5% at HUST).

Services	Conference Reviewer: AAAI 2026, IJCAI 2025 Journal Reviewer: KBS, EAAI
Activities	Head of News Team, Ha Tinh High School for Gifted Students Media Club, 2019
Hobbies	I enjoy ⚽, 🏓, 🎸, drawing 🎨, photography 📸, and Vietnamese literature. I'm also a cinephile and love the entire filmmaking process, from shooting 🎥 to editing.