CV
General Information
| Full Name | Khai Nguyen |
| Languages | English, Vietnamese |
Education
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2021-Now Ph.D. Student in Statistics
University of Texas, Austin, USA - Advised by Professor Nhat Ho and Professor Peter Müller
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2015-2020 B.Sc in Computer Science
Hanoi Univeristy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam - Excellence Degree (Top 1%) (5 years program)
- Thesis "Distributional Sliced Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling"
Experience
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Summer 2025 Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Science -
Spring 2025 Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin -
Fall 2024 Graduate Teaching Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin -
Summer 2024 Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Science -
2023-2024 Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin -
Summer 2023 Research Intern
Toyota InfoTech Labs -
2022-2023 Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin -
Summer 2022 Research Intern
AT&T Labs -
2019-2021
Honors and Awards
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2025 - BNP14 Travel Award
- UT Austin Continuing Fellowship
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2024 - Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
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2023 - ICML 2023 Travel Grant
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2022 - Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
- NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award
- ICML 2022 Travel Grant
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2021 - UT Austin Recruitment Fellowship
Professional Services
- Journal Reviewer: Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), Statistics and Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Machine Learning Journal.
- Conference Reviewer/ Program Committee: NeurIPS (2021-2024), ICML (2021-2025), ICLR (2022-2026), AISTATS (2022-2025), AAAI (2023-2026), CVPR (2023-2025), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2024), ICASSP (2024-2025), COLM (2024), WACV (2026).