Minh Hoai Nguyen – Biography

Minh Hoai is a Professor and Deputy Director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and a Professor in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor and later a tenured Associate Professor at Stony Brook University from 2014 to 2024. During his time at Stony Brook, he took a leave of absence to join VinAI in Vietnam, where he founded and led the Computer Vision research group, directed the Smart Edge product division, and supervised AI engineering activities.

Prof. Hoai earned a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of New South Wales in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012. His research interests encompass computer vision and machine learning. Hoai has garnered several accolades, including recognition as a Gold Medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, recipient of the CVPR Best Student Paper Award, and induction into the Dean's Millionaire Club (for achievements in securing research grants).

Prof. Hoai is an active contributor to the Computer Vision community, serving as a reviewer, area chair, doctoral consortium chair, demo chair, and organiser of workshops and conferences. Notably, he co-organised the 17th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, where he served as a General Chair.

Previous and Other Affiliations

• Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University
  Tenured Associate Professor
  

• VinAI
  Head of Computer Vision Research Group and Smart Edge Product Devision
  

• Visual Geometry Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
  Post-doc, working with Professor Andrew Zisserman

• Brasenose College, University of Oxford
  Nicholas Kurti Junior Research Fellow

• Human Sensing and Component Analysis Labs, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  Ph.D. student, working with Professor Fernando De la Torre

• Google Research New York
  Research Intern, working with Dr. Sanjiv Kumar

• Microsoft Research Cambridge
  Research Intern, working with Dr. Lorenzo Torresani and Carsten Rother

• FPT Information System
  Software Engineer, FIS 15

• School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales
  Undergraduate student and research assistant, working with Drs Wayne Wobcke, Eric Martin, and Amir Michail

• Honors Program in Mathematics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
  Undergraduate student.
  

• Khoi Chuyen Toan Tin, DHKHTN Hanoi
  Highschool student, winning Gold Medal in 41st International Mathematical Olympiad