CV
General Information
| Full Name | Khai Nguyen |
| Languages | English, Vietnamese |
Academic Positions
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Fall 2026 - Now Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University -
2022 - 2025 Graduate Research (Teaching) Assistant
The University of Texas at Austin
Education
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2021-2026 Ph.D. Student in Statistics
University of Texas, Austin, USA - Dissertation "Sliced Optimal Transport in Bayesian Statistics"
- 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"
Industrial Experience
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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
Honors and Awards
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2026 - Stellar Abstract Award at STAI-X
- Bartroff Family Award for Research Excellence
- Schmidt Science Fellows Finalist
- UT Austin Professional Development Award
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2025 - Top Reviewer Award at NeurIPS
- BNP14 Travel Award
- UT Austin Outstanding Graduate Research 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 Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Bayesian Analysis, 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 (2021-2025), 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).