Quang H Nguyen

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Hi! I am Quang Nguyen (my full name is Nguyen Hung Quang), an incoming PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Mohit Bansal. I am currently a research assistant at VinUniversity. I took my CS bachelor in VNU Hanoi. My current research focuses on understanding the behavior of generative models and developing robust and trustworthy AI systems.

Recently, I am interested in:

  • the mechanisms of reasoning language models
  • the multimodal misalignment problem.
  • safety concerns in diffusion models.

Besides research, I enjoy reading, playing tennis, and pingpong.

news

2026-03 I will be joining Prof. Mohit Bansal’s group at UNC Chapel Hill as a PhD student.
2025-10 I am selected as top reviewer at NeurIPS 2025.
2025-09 Our paper studying knowledge attribution in diffusion models is accepted at NeurIPS 2025.

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Unveiling Concept Attribution in Diffusion Models
    Quang H Nguyen, Hoang Phan, and Khoa D Doan
    In The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  2. ICLR
    Wicked Oddities: Selectively Poisoning for Effective Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks
    Quang H Nguyen, Nguyen Ngoc-Hieu, The-Anh Ta, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  3. ACL Findings
    Fooling the Textual Fooler via Randomizing Latent Representations
    Duy C Hoang, Quang H Nguyen, Saurav Manchanda, and 3 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024
  4. ICLR
    Understanding the Robustness of Randomized Feature Defense Against Query-Based Adversarial Attacks
    Quang H Nguyen, Yingjie Lao, Tung Pham, and 2 more authors
    In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024