Thuc Anh Nguyen

Thuc Anh Nguyen

Junior Undergraduate Researcher II

thucanhnguyen@usf.edu

3/13/2025→

Hi, my name is Thuc Anh! You can call me Anh for short. I am a sophomore in computer science at USF. I have made games with Unity and developed websites before. Currently, I want to learn more about robots and how to enhance their performance, as I think they will be able to improve human life tremendously in the future.

I joined a team that tries to resolve a problem in human-robot interaction. I hope that along the way, I can gain valuable knowledge and skills from the lab and contribute to research that studies robots’ behaviors and methods to improve their efficiency.

— 3/21/2025

Publications

Bloom Preview: A Low-Cost LLM-Powered Social Robot
Xiangfei Kong, Rex Gonzalez, Nicolas Echeverria, Sofia Cobo Navas, Thuc Anh Nguyen, Divyamshu Shrestha, Sebastian Ramirez-Vallejo, Deekshita Senthil Kumar, Andrew Texeira, Thao Nguyen, Deep Akbari, Hong Wang, Hongdao Meng, Zhao Han

Bloom Preview: A Low-Cost LLM-Powered Social Robot

2026 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Interactivity

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2026

News

HRI 2026 LBR and Interactivity Acceptance

One LBR and one Interactivity paper were accepted to HRI 2026!

Congrats Hong & Bao on “Evaluating Dynamic Surface Compensation for Robots with Projected AR” accepted (LBR) & Bloom team on “Bloom Preview: A Low-Cost LLM-Powered Social Robot” (interactivity)!

2025 Fall Lab Lunch

The end of ¼ century marks the start of Spring, which we gather and celebrate at another lab lunch!

UR2PhD REU Funding

Five RARE Lab undergraduate researchers received the competitive Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) funding by the Computing Research Association (CRA)! Congrats, Aditi, Aarav, Sofia, Rex, and Thuc Ahn!

2025 Summer CRA UR2PhD

Congrats to 11 undergraduate researchers on completion of the UR2PhD research course: Aarav, Paramveer, Thao, Aditi, Abrar, Sofia, Anjali, Rex, Miguel, and Thuc Anh!

Also, congrats, Amanual and Xiangfei, on finishing the Graduate Student Mentorship Training!

Summer 2025 Lab Lunch

June is here, and Summer starts. Welcome, new and old lab members!

Undergraduate students Tuan Khang Phan (2/12), Aarav Jain (2/23), Paramveer Singh Bhele (2/25), Gavin Wilson (2/26), Thuc Anh Nguyen (3/11), Grant Henderson (3/24), Thao (Jennifer) Nguyen (3/27) have joined the lab. Khang: Fog screen-robot system. Aarav, Param, Gavin: Protectives against robot abuse. Anh, Jennifer: FoV indicators. Grant: Explainable foundational models. Welcome!