CV
Contact Information
| Name | Dang Nguyen |
| Professional Title | CS Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA |
| nguyentuanhaidang@gmail.com |
Experience
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2026 - 2026 CA, USA
Applied Scientist Intern
Adobe
- Supervisors: Shubham Lohiya, Sizhe Zhou, Dr. Anay Majee
- Manager: Dr. Sajjadur Rahman
- Topic: Configurable Safety and Governance for Autonomous Agentic Systems
- Designed a runtime agent safety and governance system detecting intent–action mismatches, tool-result prompt injection, and dangerous cross-tool chains, achieving 99.3% recall / 96.2% precision on 1k+ production approval requests and cutting human approval prompts by 95.5%.
- Built a synthetic adversarial dataset generation and evaluation framework to surface agent safety failure modes and enable systematic regression testing.
- Integrated the system into Adobe Experience Platform for configurable runtime governance of autonomous enterprise agents.
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2024 - 2025 CA, USA
Student Researcher
Google Research
- Working on synthetic data generation for LLMs and data selection for LVLMs.
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2024 - 2024 CA, USA
PhD Research Intern
Cisco Systems
- Worked with Dr. Ali Payani on LLMs Hallucination.
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2020 - 2023 Hanoi, Vietnam
AI Research Resident
VinAI
- Worked with Prof. Nhat Ho on Optimal Transport and Model Merging.
Education
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2023 - Present Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Computer Science
- Advised by Professor Baharan Mirzasoleiman
- UCLA Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award
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2017 - 2021 Tokyo, Japan
B.S.
Toyo University
Information Networking for Innovation and Design
- Summa Cum Laude
- Top Thesis Award
- Toyo Top Global Scholarship A
Honors and Awards
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2023 UCLA Graduate Dean's Scholar Award
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2017 Toyo Top Global Scholarship A
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2015 Silver Medal, 56th International Mathematical Olympiad
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2015 First Prize, Vietnam Mathematical Olympiad
Professional Services
- Reviewer at NeurIPS (2022-2026), ICML (2023-2026), ICLR (2024-2026), AISTATS (2023-2025), AAAI (2025), AdvML@NeurIPS2024, SCSL@ICLR2025.