Toan Nguyen

CS PhD at USC

First-Year Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
Geometry, Vision, and Learning Lab & SLURM Lab

Email: tientoan [at] usc [dot] edu

I am co-advised by Prof. Yue Wang and Prof. Daniel Seita. Prior to joining USC, I was an AI Resident at the FPT AI Center. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Ho Chi Minh City University of Science.

I'm interested in anything that helps robots become more capable, generalizable, and trustworthy. My goal is to make robots not just perform tasks, but truly understand the world they act in.

Publications

Rethinking Progression of Memory State in Robotic Manipulation: An Object-Centric Perspective
Nhat Chung*, Taisei Hanyu*, Toan Nguyen, Huy Le, Frederick Bumgarner, Duy Nguyen Ho Minh, Khoa Vo, Kashu Yamazaki, Chase Rainwater, Tung Kieu, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le
AAAI 2026

🌐 Project

Language-Driven 6-DoF Grasp Detection Using Negative Prompt Guidance 🏆 ORAL PRESENTATION
Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, An Vuong, Quan Vuong, Dung Nguyen, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
ECCV 2024

📄 arXiv 🌐 Project 💻 Code

HabiCrowd: A High Performance Simulator for Crowd-Aware Visual Navigation
An Vuong, Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Dung Nguyen, Binh Huynh, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
IROS 2024

📄 arXiv 🌐 Project 💻 Code

Language-Conditioned Affordance-Pose Detection in 3D Point Clouds
Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Tuan Vo, Vy Truong, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Bac Le, Anh Nguyen
ICRA 2024

📄 arXiv 🌐 Project 💻 Code

Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection using Knowledge Distillation and Text-Point Correlation
Tuan Vo, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang, Toan Nguyen, Ngan Le, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
ICRA 2024

📄 arXiv 💻 Code

Language-Driven Scene Synthesis Using Multi-Conditional Diffusion Model
An Vuong, Minh Nhat Vu, Toan Nguyen, Baoru Huang, Dung Nguyen, Thieu Vo, Anh Nguyen
NeurIPS 2023

📄 arXiv 🌐 Project 💻 Code

Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Point Clouds 🏅 BEST PAPER FINALIST 🎓 BEST STUDENT PAPER FINALIST
Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, An Vuong, Dung Nguyen, Thieu Vo, Ngan Le, Anh Nguyen
IROS 2023

📄 arXiv 🌐 Project 💻 Code

Under Review

SlotVLA: Towards Modeling of Object-Relation Representations in Robotic Manipulation
Taisei Hanyu*, Nhat Chung*, Huy Le, Toan Nguyen, Yuki Ikebe, Anthony Gunderman, Duy Nguyen Ho Minh, Khoa Vo, Tung Kieu, Kashu Yamazaki, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le
Under Review

📄 arXiv

RoboDesign1M: A Large-scale Dataset for Robot Design Understanding
Tri Le, Toan Nguyen, Quang Tran, Quang Nguyen, Baoru Huang, Hoan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Tung Duc Ta, Anh Nguyen
Under Review

📄 arXiv

FurniMAS: Language-Guided Furniture Decoration using Multi-Agent System
Toan Nguyen, Tri Le, Quang Nguyen, Anh Nguyen
Under Review

📄 arXiv

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer: ICRA 2026, WACV 2026, IROS 2025, ECCV 2024, ICRA 2024, IROS 2024

Journal Reviewer: RA-L 2025