Thong Q. Nguyen

Principal Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

May 2023

Names

Thong Q. Nguyen (Preferred)

Thong Quang Nguyen

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2021 – Present

PhD student

California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)

2015 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Maria Spiropulu

2015 – 2021

Expertise

NLP

2022 – Present

machine learning for particle physics

2015 – 2022

Publications

PPTArena: A Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents on PowerPoint Tasks
Apurva Gandhi, Vishwas Suryanarayanan, Firoz Shaik, Raja Hasnain Anwar, Shubhang Desai, Thong Q. Nguyen, Muhammad Taqi Raza, Vishal Chowdhary, Graham Neubig
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
VerificAgent: Integrating Expert Knowledge and Fact-Checked Memory for Robust Domain-Specific Task Planning
Thong Q. Nguyen, Shubhang Desai, Yash Jain, Tanvir Aumi, Vishal Chowdhary
- WCUA 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Autoencoders on field-programmable gate arrays for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider
Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad, Thomas James, Vladimir Loncar, Maurizio Pierini, Adrian Alan Pol, Nicolò Ghielmetti, Maksymilian Graczyk, Sioni Summers, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Thong Q. Nguyen, Javier M. Duarte, Zhenbin Wu
- 2022 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- Nat. Mach. Intell. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Author Correction: Autoencoders on field-programmable gate arrays for real-time, unsupervised new physics detection at 40 MHz at the Large Hadron Collider
Ekaterina Govorkova, Ema Puljak, Thea Aarrestad, Thomas James, Vladimir Loncar, Maurizio Pierini, Adrian Alan Pol, Nicolò Ghielmetti, Maksymilian Graczyk, Sioni Summers, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Thong Q. Nguyen, Javier M. Duarte, Zhenbin Wu
- 2022 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- Nat. Mach. Intell. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Analysis-Specific Fast Simulation at the LHC with Deep Learning
Cheng Chen, Olmo Cerri, Thong Q. Nguyen, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Maurizio Pierini
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Adversarially Learned Anomaly Detection on CMS Open Data: re-discovering the top quark
Oliver Knapp, Günther Dissertori, Olmo Cerri, Thong Q. Nguyen, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Maurizio Pierini
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Data Augmentation at the LHC through Analysis-specific Fast Simulation with Deep Learning
Cheng Chen, Olmo Cerri, Thong Q. Nguyen, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Maurizio Pierini
- Published: 01 Jan 2020, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Topology classification with deep learning to improve real-time event selection at the LHC
Thong Q. Nguyen, Daniel Weitekamp III, Dustin Anderson, Roberto Castello, Olmo Cerri, Maurizio Pierini, Maria Spiropulu, Jean-Roch Vlimant
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Variational Autoencoders for New Physics Mining at the Large Hadron Collider
Olmo Cerri, Thong Q. Nguyen, Maurizio Pierini, Maria Spiropulu, Jean-Roch Vlimant
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 11 May 2023
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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