CV

General Information

Full Name Khai Nguyen
Languages English, Vietnamese

Academic Positions

  • 2026 - Now
    Assistant Professor
    Texas A&M University
  • 2022 - 2025
    Graduate Research (Teaching) Assistant
    The University of Texas at Austin

Education

  • 2021-2026
    Ph.D. in Statistics
    University of Texas, Austin, USA
    • Dissertation "Sliced Optimal Transport in Bayesian Statistics"
    • Advised by Professor Nhat Ho and Professor Peter Müller
  • 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"

Industrial Experience

  • Summer 2025
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Science
  • Summer 2024
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Science
  • Summer 2023
    Research Intern
    Toyota InfoTech Labs
  • Summer 2022
    Research Intern
    AT&T Labs
  • 2019-2021
    AI Research Resident
    VinAI Research

Honors and Awards

  • 2026
    • Stellar Abstract Award at STAI-X
    • Bartroff Family Award for Research Excellence
    • Schmidt Science Fellows Finalist
    • UT Austin Professional Development Award
  • 2025
    • Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
    • BNP14 Travel Award
    • UT Austin Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2024
    • Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
  • 2023
    • ICML 2023 Travel Grant
  • 2022
    • Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
    • NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award
    • ICML 2022 Travel Grant
  • 2021
    • UT Austin Recruitment Fellowship

Professional Services

  • Conference Area Chair: ICLR (2027), AISTATS (2027), ICML (2027).
  • Journal Reviewer: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Bayesian Analysis, Statistical Science, Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (CSDA), 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 (2021-2025), ICML (2021-2026), ICLR (2022-2026), AISTATS (2022-2026), AAAI (2023-2026), CVPR (2023-2025), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2024), ICASSP (2024-2025), COLM (2024), WACV (2026).