Kiet A. Nguyen

PhD student, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joined

February 2024

Names

Kiet A. Nguyen (Preferred)

Emails

****@vt.edu (Confirmed)

,

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2024 – 2029

MS student

Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (vt.edu)

2021 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ismini Lourentzou

2021 – Present

Expertise

Vision-language learning

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large vision-language models

2021 – Present

Publications

PyraTok: Language-Aligned Pyramidal Tokenizer for Video Understanding and Generation
Dong-Hwan Jang, Tushar Prakash, Onkar Kishor Susladkar, Adheesh Sunil Juvekar, Kiet A. Nguyen, Inderjit S Dhillon, Ismini Lourentzou
- The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026
- Readers: Everyone
PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation
Jiawei Liu, Nirav Diwan, Zhe Wang, Haoyu Zhai, Xiaona Zhou, Kiet A. Nguyen, Tianjiao Yu, Muntasir Wahed, Yinlin Deng, hadjer Benkraouda, Yuxiang Wei, LINGMING ZHANG, Ismini Lourentzou, Gang Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
PRIMA: Multi-Image Vision-Language Models for Reasoning Segmentation
Muntasir Wahed, Kiet A. Nguyen, Adheesh Sunil Juvekar, Xinzhuo Li, Xiaona Zhou, Vedant Shah, Tianjiao Yu, Pinar Yanardag, Ismini Lourentzou
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
Kiet A. Nguyen, Adheesh Juvekar, Tianjiao Yu, Muntasir Wahed, Ismini Lourentzou
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Narrative Characteristics in Refugee Discourse: An Analysis of American Public Opinion on the Afghan Refugee Crisis After the Taliban Takeover
Hulya Dogan, Kiet A. Nguyen, Ismini Lourentzou
- Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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