About me

I am currently a Lecturer in Robotics at the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering at The University of Queensland.

I was formerly a Research Assistant Professor) at Center for Advance Robotics Innovation Technology (CARTIN), NTU, Singapore, from 2023 to 2025, and the Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship, at NTU in 2020-2022, and KTH Royal Institude of Technology in 2022-2023.

I received my PhD from NTU in 2020, with the Best Thesis Award for my work Ranging-Based Adaptive Navigation for Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. I graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree from Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (VNU-HCMUT) in 2014.

My research is dedicated to advancing the perception capability of autonomous systems, which is a fundamental prerequisite for robot autonomy. My vision is to achieve robust and intelligent perception capability for autonomous systems in complex and large-scale real-world scenarios, enabled by the synergy of complementary sensing modalities and distilled prior knowledge under a common mathematical framework. I also have extensive experience on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are the testbed for the robustness of my proposed perception systems. My research has been published at top-tiered robotics venues such as ICRA, IROS, CVPR, TRO, RAL, IJRR.

I am an active member of IEEE and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, for which I am a frequent and enthusiastic reviewer of RAL, TRO, ICRA and IROS. At CDC 2023, I organized the Cooperative Aerial Inspection Challenge. I am also a co-organizer of the UG2+ Challenge on UAV Tracking and Pose Estimation at CVPR 2024. In Autumn of 2022, I taught a PhD-level course (6-credit) titled Optimization Based Localization and Mapping at RPL, KTH; all lectures and materials are shared with the public at KTH Canvas.

A son of the Southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, I hail from Can Tho City. I love travelling and learning of new lands and new cultures. In my free time I enjoy playing badminton.

News:

1/12/2025: I am looking for a PhD student to join me in UQ under the UQ Graduate School Scholarship (UQGSS). Please look for the topic and expressions of interest at this LinkedIn post.

31/10/2024: We release the GPTR, a continuous-time trajectory representation based on gaussian process for motion estimation. Check out the paper and the source code!

20/10/2024: the source code for our learning-based UWB Localization ULOC has been released!

09/10/2024: the results of CARIC at IROS 2024 has been announced!