My name is
Kien X. Nguyen

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at University of Delaware, where I work under the advising of Dr. Xi Peng in Deep-REAL Lab.

My current research focus involves Robust and Safety-aware Machine Learning. Before coming to UD, I obtained my B.S. at Texas Christian University.

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News

Udaily article
on Explainable Seafloor Intelligence research

Featured in a UDaily article discussing Explainable AI research for seabed morphodynamics analysis, funded by the Department of Defense.

Jan 2024
  • [Jan 2024]
    Became the lead RA in Seafloor Intelligence project, funded by DoD
  • [July 2023]
    Participated in UD's DS + AI Hackathon
  • [July 2023]
    Paper accepted to CVIU'23, Volume 235
  • [May 2023]
    Passed Prelim/Qual Exam
  • [July 2021]
    Joined Deep-REAL Lab

Teaching

Kien X.Nguyen gives an awesome presentation
  • Instructor, CISC484/684: Intro to Machine Learning (Summer 2023)
  • Instructor, CISC181: Intro to Computer Science II (Summer 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant, CISC684: Intro to Machine Learning (Fall 2023, Fall 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant, CISC372: Parallel Computing (Spring 2023)
  • Teaching Assistant, CISC181: Intro to Computer Science II (Spring 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant, CISC106: General Computer Science for Engineers (Fall 2021)

Publications

Deep Learning-based Estimation of Whole-body Kinematics from Multi-view Images
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 235, October 2023

[CVIU'23] Kien X. Nguyen, Liying Zheng, Ashley L. Hawke, Robert E. Carey, Scott P. Breloff, Kang Li, and Xi Peng. Deep Learning-based Estimation of Whole-body Kinematics from Multi-view Images. In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 235, October 2023. [pdf] [arXiv] [code]

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CoConv: Learning Dynamic Cooperative Convolution for Image Recognition
In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, July 2021

[ICME'21 Oral] Kien X. Nguyen, Tiffany Ryu, Jocelyn Zhang, Xu Ma, Qing Yang, Song Fu, Paparao Palacharla, Nannan Wang, and Xi Wang. CoConv: Learning Dynamic Cooperative Convolution for Image Recognition. In IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, July 2021. [pdf] [code]

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Paradox of AlphaZero: Strategic vs. Optimal Plays
In The 39th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, November 2020

[IPCCC'20] Ze-Li Dou, Liran Ma, Khiem Nguyen, and Kien X. Nguyen. Paradox of AlphaZero: Strategic vs. Optimal Plays In The 39th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, November 2020. [pdf]

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