Khoi Nguyen

Khoi Nguyen

AI Research Scientist

Qualcomm AI Research

Biography

Khoi Nguyen holds a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon State University and is currently a Staff Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research. His primary research focuses on Reinforcement Learning and World Models for Robot Learning, deep generative models (diffusion, flow-matching, and autoregressive models) for visual content synthesis, and 3D/4D reconstruction, understanding, and generation. He has published over 20 papers at top-tier Computer Vision conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and NeurIPS, and has mentored 15+ AI residents who collectively published 20+ papers and secured admissions to prestigious PhD programs. Beyond research, Khoi serves as an Area Chair for NeurIPS and BMVC, and as a reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, TPAMI, and TIP. He has also co-organized the SyntaGen workshop at CVPR 2024 and 2025. He earned the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ECCV 2020, and his team received the Best Paper – Honorable Mention Award at WACV 2023.

Interests

  • World Models and Policy Improvement for Robot Learning
  • 3D/4D Reconstruction, Understanding, and Generation
  • Deep Generative Models (diffusion, flow-matching and autoregressive models) for Image/Video Generation and Editing.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021

    Oregon State University

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2017

    Oregon State University

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2014

    Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Bach Khoa University)

Recent News

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[11/26] Three papers accepted to WACV 2027: Personalized Segmentation, Open-Vocab 3DGS Segmentation, Personalized Video Gen. Cheers!

[09/26] One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2026: ArtCrafter. Cheers!

[07/26] One paper accepted to ECCV 2026: Cross-Space Distillation. Cheers!

[05/26] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026: InverFill and SwiftPie (Findings). Cheers!

[06/25] Two papers accepted to ICCV 2025: CSD-VAR, NASA. Cheers!

Publications

Employment

 
 
 
 
 

Staff Research Scientist

Qualcomm AI Research

Apr 2025 – Present Hanoi, Vietnam
Computer Vision and Machine Learning Research and Mentoring
 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist

VinAI Research

Jul 2021 – Mar 2021 Hanoi, Vietnam
Computer Vision and Machine Learning Research and Mentoring
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

AIBee US Corp.

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 Palo Alto, California
  • Topic: Multi-person Tracking by Segmentation in Surveillance Camera
  • Mentors: Dr. Chunhui Gu, Dr. Sinisa Todorovic, Dr. Silvio Savarese
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Verisk Analytics

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Topic: Apply Graph Neural Network to image document analysis for extracting semistructured information (W2 Form)
  • Mentor: Dr. Maneesh Singh

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