Dang Nguyen

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Hi! 👋 My name is Dang Nguyen, and I am a CS Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Tianyi Zhou. My research centers around applying language models as agents to make optimal sequential decisions.

Before joining UMD, I earned my B.E. degree in Computer Engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and worked as an AI Resident at VinAI Research, advised by Professor Luu Anh Tuan.

Publications

  1. DynaSaur 🦖: Large Language Agents Beyond Predefined Actions
    Dang Nguyen, Viet Dac Lai, Seunghyun Yoon, Ryan A. Rossi, Handong Zhao, Ruiyi Zhang, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, Yu Wang, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, and Tianyi Zhou
  2. RuleR: Improving LLM Controllability by Rule-based Data Recycling
    Ming Li, Han Chen, Chenguang Wang,  Dang Nguyen, Dianqi Li, and Tianyi Zhou
  3. Multi-Objective Linguistic Control of Large Language Models
    Dang Nguyen, Jiuhai Chen, and Tianyi Zhou
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
  4. COMBAT: Alternated Training for Effective Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks
    Tran Huynh,  Dang Nguyen, Tung Pham, and Anh Tran
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  5. Textual Manifold-based Defense Against Natural Language Adversarial Examples
    Dang Nguyen, and Anh Tuan Luu
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing