Published papers in neurIPS 2020, ICML 2020, etc. Won the UAE's national innovation competition for university students (prize worth 250,000 USD). Advised master student Jiachen Li and co-authored multiple papers. Received Microsoft Azure research grant (20,000 USD). Served as a reviewer for several international conferences.
Research Experience
Research internships at Microsoft Research (2019), Google Research (2020), and Google Brain's Robotics team (2021). Developed a smart driving assistant under the guidance of Matt Karau during undergrad.
Education
PhD: UC San Diego, Advisors: Prof. Henrik I. Christensen and Prof. Hao Su. During undergrad, worked with Prof. Keith Ross on reinforcement learning, Prof. Godfried Toussaint on computational geometry, Prof. Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani on synthetic biology, and Prof. Faisal Saied on spectral clustering.
Background
Fields: Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics. Hello! I am Quan Vuong. I am a PhD student at the University of California San Diego.
Miscellany
Trained as a debater under Prof. John Coughlin. Served as the Vice President of the Student Government.