Hi there!
My name is Duy Phuong Nguyen (Buzi Nguyen), a PhD candidate at Princeton University working with Assistant Professor Jaime Fisac.
Education Experience
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Princeton University - Princeton, NJ, USA
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
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RMIT University - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
BEng., Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Honours)
Exchange program
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RMIT University - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
BEng., Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Honours)
Valedictorian of Engineering cohort
Research Experience
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- Synopsys TCAD modeling for 2D/3D metal-semiconductor test structure
- Established TCAD FEM capability at RMIT
- TLM test structure modeling for \(\rho_{contact}\) analysis
- Manuscript for journal paper on limits due to non-linear characteristic
of metal-semiconductor ohmic contact test structure
- Conference paper for \(\rho_{contact}\) analysis
Academic Experience
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- Taught high school students sampling and learning based motion planning in robotics
(A*, RRT, Q-learning in C-space)
- Developed teaching materials (Colab notebooks, presentation slides) for an intensive 3-week program
- Delivered lectures and programming tutorial sessions
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Course: ECE 346/COS 348 / ECE 566 Intelligent Robotic Systems
Instructor: Asst. Prof. Jaime F. Fisac
Built mobile robots and prepared lab components for planning under uncertainty, active perception,
learning-based control, and multi-agent decision-making using ROS, visual SLAM, iLQR, MDP/POMDP
and reachability analysis
Industry Experience
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- Led Electronics and Software Engineering team to develop in-house 3-channel and 8-channel EMG armband
running machine learning on the edge to predict grip patterns of amputees
- Developed Flutter mobile application to interact withproducts
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- Built OCR system to read SIM card number with CV
- Developed application managing management application for 2000 sensors, with real-time update
and automatic report generator generation
- Created a REST service tracing program using DFS
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- Programmed an 8-DOF robotic arm and omni-directional base with obstacle detection,
collision avoidance and RPA (?)
- Improved analog circuit for teleconference robot; RF control to debug and prototype robotic functions
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Supported clients’ projects and prototyped solutions using NI products (NI LabVIEW, Multisim, Ultiboard and Camera Vision): self-balancing robots, 3-DOF robotic arm controlled by CV