Quang H Nguyen

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Hi! I am a first-year PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Mohit Bansal. Previously, I worked as a research assistant at VinUniversity with Prof. Khoa Doan. I took my CS bachelor’s at VNU Hanoi. My current research focuses on understanding the behavior of generative models and developing robust and trustworthy AI systems.

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

news

2026-09 Our paper on hidden critique ability of reasoning models is accepted at NeurIPS 2026.
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.
2025-01 Our paper on improving clean-label backdoor attacks in constrained threat models is accepted at ICLR 2025.
2024-05 Our paper applying randomized defense to NLP models is accepted at ACL Findings 2024.
2024-01 Our paper analyzing randomized defense for black-box attacks is accepted at ICLR 2024.

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. 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