An D. Nguyen

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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Computer Science Department and the Oxford Robotics Institute, where I develop AI that supports human sequential decision-making capabilities for applications in robotics. My research also focuses on enhancing human-AI joint decision-making capabilities, with a particular emphasis on metacognitive intelligence systems using Reinforcement Learning approaches.

I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Nick Hawes; Prof. Alessandro Abate; Prof. Raunak Bhattacharyya, and worked with Prof. Ingmar Posner; Prof. Steve Fleming; Prof. Clara Colombatto.

Before my doctoral studies, I obtained my Master’s degree at Nagoya University, Japan, where I worked on Imitation Learning for Autonomous Systems via modeling Hybrid Dynamical Systems. I also read Chaos Theory during my time in Japan.

📫 You can reach me via email: $f i r s t n a m e l a s t n a m e [a t] r o b o t s . o x . a c . u k$

News

Mar 06, 2025	A paper got accepted to ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution
Mar 02, 2025	I presented my research at ACM HRI in Melbourne 🇦🇺
Mar 04, 2024	A paper got accepted to ICLR 2024 Workshop on Data-centric Machine Learning Research
Feb 28, 2024	I presented my research at AAAI Spring Sumposium @ Stanford Unniversity 🇺🇸

Selected Publications

ICLR

Is Confidence All You Need? Exploring Human-Ai Joint Decision-Making in Spatiotemporal Robotic Tasks

Duc-An Nguyen, Raunak Bhattacharyya, Clara Colombatto, Stephen M Fleming, Ingmar Posner, and Nick Hawes

In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution (HAIC), 2025

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@inproceedings{nguyen2025confidence,
  title = {Is Confidence All You Need? Exploring Human-Ai Joint Decision-Making in Spatiotemporal Robotic Tasks},
  author = {Nguyen, Duc-An and Bhattacharyya, Raunak and Colombatto, Clara and Fleming, Stephen M and Posner, Ingmar and Hawes, Nick},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution (HAIC)},
  year = {2025},
}

ACM HRI

Group Decision-Making in Robot Teleoperation: Two Heads are Better Than One

Duc-An Nguyen, Raunak Bhattacharyya, Clara Colombatto, Steve Fleming, Ingmar Posner, and Nick Hawes

In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025

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@inproceedings{nguyen2025group,
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3721488.3721550#:~:text=Finally%2C%20we%20present%20findings%20on,active%20operator%20control%20of%20robots.},
  title = {Group Decision-Making in Robot Teleoperation: Two Heads are Better Than One},
  author = {Nguyen, Duc-An and Bhattacharyya, Raunak and Colombatto, Clara and Fleming, Steve and Posner, Ingmar and Hawes, Nick},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  year = {2025},
}

AAAI

Towards Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Robotics: Investigating the Role of Self-Confidence Calibration in Joint Decision-Making

Raunak Bhattacharyya, Duc-An Nguyen, Clara Colombatto, Stephen Fleming, Ingmar Posner, and Nick Hawes

In AAAI Spring Symposium Series (AAAI 2024), 2024

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@inproceedings{bhattacharyya2024towards,
  title = {Towards Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Robotics: Investigating the Role of Self-Confidence Calibration in Joint Decision-Making},
  author = {Bhattacharyya, Raunak and Nguyen, Duc-An and Colombatto, Clara and Fleming, Stephen and Posner, Ingmar and Hawes, Nick},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium Series (AAAI 2024)},
  year = {2024},
}

ICLR

PRE: Vision-Language Prompt Learning with Reparameterization Encoder

Thi Minh Anh Pham, Duc-An Nguyen, Cephas Svosve, Vasileios Argyriou, and Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In ICLR 2024 Workshop on Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR), 2024

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@inproceedings{pham2023pre,
  url = {https://dmlr.ai/},
  title = {PRE: Vision-Language Prompt Learning with Reparameterization Encoder},
  author = {Pham, Thi Minh Anh and Nguyen, Duc-An and Svosve, Cephas and Argyriou, Vasileios and Tzimiropoulos, Georgios},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2024 Workshop on Data-centric Machine Learning Research (DMLR)},
  pages = {arXiv--preprint},
  year = {2024},
}