Thao Nguyen

Thao Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Haverford College. She focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly in areas like visual object search, language-conditioned observation models, and hierarchical planning systems. Her office is located at KINSC L303.

Her research bridges human-guided robot learning with advanced state abstractions and multimodal interaction frameworks. Key contributions include integrating gesture-based inputs and natural language queries into robotic object retrieval systems, enabling more intuitive human-robot collaboration.

Recent publications highlight her work on language-visual alignment, contextual robotics, and non-Markovian planning. Her projects leverage Bayesian inference, deep learning, and temporal logic to enhance robot perception and task execution.