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.

	AHAN: Asymmetric Hierarchical Attention Network for Identical Twin Face Verification Hoang-Nhat Nguyen AAAI, 2026 paper \| poster Proposed an architecture that achieves 92.3% identical twin facial verification accuracy by augmenting ViT self-attention with hierarchical cross-attention over semantic facial regions.
	A Knowledge Graph-Based Framework for Personalized Course Recommendations in Higher Education Thi-Hoa-Hue-Nguyen, Hoang-Nhat Nguyen ICAIBD, 2025 paper Proposed a knowledge graph-based framework for personalized course recommendations in higher education.
	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, 2025 paper Proposed a framework for integrating computational advertising with guaranteed display for enhanced performance in Wi-Fi marketing.

	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

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	In my free time, I play ⚽, 🏓, and 🎸, and I enjoy drawing 🎨, photography 📸. I'm also a huge cinephile and love the entire filmmaking process, from shooting 🎥 to editing.