Nguyen T.T. Nguyen

Former software engineer. Doctoral graduate student/MEXT scholar at Advanced Intelligent Space Lab at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan.

As a PhD student at Ritsumeikan University, I am developing new interfaces (physical, VR, and holographic) for simulated patient agents funded by Ritsumeikan’s R-GIRO fellowship and Japanese MEXT government scholarship.

My doctoral research focuses on reconstructing interactive digital facial twins by leveraging inductive biases to create lightweight, computationally efficient models for robotics and VR. My objective is to mitigate the trade-off between physical presence and digital complexity, disentangling high-fidelity avatar development from strict hardware constraints. By lowering these barriers, I hope to accelerate HRI research and enable laboratories with varying resources to contribute effectively to the next generation of interactive agents.

My published research spans three core domains: digital human facial avatar reconstruction, generative facial behavior synthesis, and holographic avatar embodiment.