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Nguyen Khoi Nguyen (Alan)

ML/Robotics Engineer focused on embodied AI systems, VLM/VLA-to-robot execution, and Embedded Systems.


What I do

I design and deploy technical systems across robotics, machine learning, and MLOps/full-stack platforms.

Robotics + Embodied AI

  • Build end-to-end language-conditioned manipulation pipelines for real robots (7-DoF Sawyer).
  • Translate VLM/VLA outputs into hierarchical, parameterized ROS2 action execution.
  • Develop perception pipelines with RGB-D point clouds, open-vocabulary segmentation, 6-DoF pose estimation, and scene graph construction.
  • Validate policies in simulation (Isaac Sim) with sim-to-real transfer workflows, including domain randomization and contact modeling.

AI Systems + MLOps

  • Build and operate production AI services (frontend, backend APIs, auth, data, monitoring, deployment).
  • Implement hybrid inference stacks combining deterministic computation with ML/LLM-assisted extraction and reasoning.
  • Maintain release pipelines with regression checks, versioning, observability, and controlled rollouts.

Applied ML / Scientific Computing

  • Work across Python, C++, and MATLAB for modeling, verification, and evaluation.
  • Experience with computational-physics-oriented AI training/evaluation workflows (FEM/FDTD/BPM contexts).

Current interests

  • Embodied AI for manipulation (VLM/VLA + ROS2 + closed-loop control)
  • Robust task and motion planning (TAMP) in real-world settings
  • Simulation-to-real evaluation and failure-recovery protocols
  • Production AI engineering and reliable deployment
  • Applied AI for environmental analytics and sustainability software

Technical stack

Languages
Python, C++14/17, JavaScript, SQL, MATLAB, Wolfram

ML/DL
PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, SymPy

Robotics
ROS/ROS2, Gazebo, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, OpenCV, MoveIt2

MLOps / Infra
Docker, Git, CI/CD, model/pipeline validation, experiment logging

Full-Stack
React, Node.js/Express, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Render


Selected work

  • Embodied AI Researcher — BU Dependable Computing Lab (DCL) & RASTIC
    VLM/VLA inference-to-execution pipelines, real Sawyer experiments, perception + planning integration.

  • Founder / Full-Stack Engineer — GreenMetric.ai
    Deployed SaaS platform with hybrid AI + deterministic environmental-impact engine and production MLOps workflows.


Education

  • M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (Systems Robotics) — Boston University (Starting Sept 2026)
  • B.A. in Physics & Computer Science (Dual Major) — Boston University (Dec 2025)

Contact

If you are working on embodied AI, robotics systems, VLM/VLA planning, or production ML platforms, feel free to connect.

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  1. ai-machine-learning ai-machine-learning Public

    🤖 A public repository for my machine learning notes. This will also contain lectures and sample data sets that I have gathered from various sources, including CS229 (Stanford), CS542 (BU), MLS (dee…

    Jupyter Notebook 5 2

  2. webprojects webprojects Public

    🌏 This public repository includes some of my web-based projects. The majority of content of this repo will be written using JS, HTML, CSS, and Objective-C. There are a few projects that are collabo…

    CSS 5 2

  3. compprogramming compprogramming Public

    This repositiory contains the problems that I have solved on LeetCode, CodeForces, and other programming websites. Most of the files here are going to be either in Python, C++, or Java.

    Python 4 2

  4. ai-deep-learning ai-deep-learning Public

    This is a repository for my deep learning projects and notes. The folder is not yet completed.

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  5. py580-MLforPhysicists py580-MLforPhysicists Public

    A repo for BU PY580 - Machine Learning for Physicists course. This course was taught by professor Pankaj Mehta, originally in 2021.

    Jupyter Notebook 2 1

  6. 2D-programmable-waveguide 2D-programmable-waveguide Public

    Forked from mcmahon-lab/2D-programmable-waveguide

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