Thao Nguyen

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tnguyen3@haverford.edu

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Hello, World!

My name is Thao Nguyen. I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. I previously completed my PhD in Computer Science at Brown University, where I was advised by Stefanie Tellex in the Humans to Robots Laboratory.

Interests

My research is motivated by the desire to develop home and office robot assistants to help us with our daily tasks. My work has mostly focused on improving robots' natural language and visual understanding for effective human-robot interaction and task completion.

I enjoy various crafts such as origami, crochet, embroidery, and baking. I'm currently learning how to knit to unlock my full grandma-potential :) I also love taking care of my cat Milo and my many plants!



News

  • Summer 2022: I programmed and joined our Spot robot in dancing to BTS' "Butter".
  • 2021: Our research proposal with Srinath Sridhar was selected for a DEPSCoR award.
  • April 2021: I was selected to participate in the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women.
  • May 2020: I received my Master of Science in CS from Brown University.