Toan Nguyen

Toan Nguyen is currently a PhD student in the Human-AI Interaction group at Technical University of Dortmund, and a research assistant at the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security.

His research focuses on brain–computer interfaces (BCI), including neural signal acquisition, and processing. He is also interested in artificial intelligence based on physiological sensors and their applications in areas such as healthcare, education, robotics, and adaptive human–computer interaction systems. Toan is available to supervise both Bachelor’s and Master’s theses and welcomes motivated students interested in interdisciplinary research. Students may work on topics involving machine learning, deep learning, experimental design, data analysis, and the development of intelligent, user-centred technologies.

About the background, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Can Tho University of Technology, Vietnam, graduating within the top 15% of his cohort, and later completed a fully funded Master’s degree in computer vision at Hongik University, South Korea. During his master’s studies, he also undertook a research internship at Yuan Ze University, supported by Taiwanese government funding. Before joining TU Dortmund, he spent nearly two years as a graduate researcher at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, contributing to projects on EEG-based dementia detection and imagined and silent-speech decoding for AI-driven healthcare applications. With over four years of research experience in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction, Toan has authored and co-authored already more than ten publications. His work has been recognized with the Bridging Divides Research Grant from Toronto Metropolitan University, the Best Paper Award at ACM ETRA 2025, and the Potential Researcher Award under the Australia–Vietnam Strategic Technologies Scholarship, supported by the Australian Government, Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology, UTS, the Post and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, and Nokia.