Quan Nguyen

Quan Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Dynamic Robotics and Control Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017 and previously served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT. His research focuses on nonlinear control, trajectory optimization, and real-time optimization-based control for highly dynamic legged robotics, with notable work on bipedal and quadrupedal robots such as ATRIAS and the MIT Cheetah 3. He is also the Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of VinMotion, a robotics engineering company.