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Duc Tai Nguyen
PhD Researcher

Duc Tai Nguyen

PhD Student

tai.nguyen@smu.edu.sg

About

Researching deep reinforcement learning for robot navigation in crowded environments.

Research Vision

Developing robust deep reinforcement learning methods for socially-aware robot navigation that can handle highly dynamic, crowded real-world environments.

Current Work

Designing novel reward shaping and curriculum learning approaches for training navigation policies in dense crowd scenarios.

Research Interests

Deep RLNavigationCrowd Simulation

Mentored by

Linh Kästner

Robotics7/10Machine Learning8/10Simulation8/10Software Engineering7/10Research Writing7/10Systems / ROS7/10Perception5/10Planning8/10Generative AI4/10Human-Robot Interaction7/10

Publications (1)

Arena-Bench 2.0: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Social Navigation Approaches in Collaborative Environments

Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Linh Kästner, Huajian Zeng, Jiaming Wang, Nhan Trinh, Zhengchen Shen, Giang Nguyen Huu Truong, Tim Lenz, Duc Anh Do, Ahmed Martban, and Eva Wiese

IROS 2025, Hangzhou, China2025-10-01

Interested in collaborating?

Reach out to Duc Tai Nguyen or apply to join ARENA Lab.