Quan Nguyen
Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
Develops control and learning for dynamic legged robots.
Quan Nguyen's lab at USC works on legged locomotion & humanoids and planning, control & multi-robot systems. 19 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly RA-L and T-RO. 5 PhD students and 4 master's students. 26 alumni, most often to Amazon and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 5%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 4
- alumni listed
- 26
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 7 papers2024 · T1 1
- 10 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems12 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids9 papers
- dynamic5 papers
- dynamic legged1 paper
- develops control0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20252 papers
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), .DiffCoTune: Differentiable Co-Tuning for Cross-domain Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), .Preferenced Oracle Guided Multi-mode Policies for Dynamic Bipedal Loco-Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), .A Computationally Efficient Approach to Account for Stochastic Delays in Multi-robot Task Allocation in a Proactive Manner
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .Accounting for Travel Time and Arrival Time Coordination during Task Allocations in Legged-robot Teams
- T-RO (T1)Adaptive Force-based Control of Dynamic Legged Locomotion over Uneven Terrain (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), .Autonomous Visual Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Farm Operation
- ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference, .Enhancing Efficiency of Human Pickers in Strawberry Harvesting with Quadruped Robots
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .Hierarchical Optimization-based Control for Whole-body Loco-manipulation of Heavy Objects (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .Learning Agile Locomotion and Adaptive Behaviors via RL-augmented MPC (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .A Hybrid Quadratic Programming Framework for Real-Time Embedded Safety-Critical Control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .Contact Optimization for Non-Prehensile Loco-Manipulation via Hierarchical Model Predictive Control (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), .Dynamic Walking of Bipedal Robots on Uneven Stepping Stones via Adaptive-frequency MPC. (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), .Hierarchical Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of a Rigid Object by Quadrupedal Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), .Hierarchical Adaptive Loco-manipulation Control for Quadruped Robots. (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, .Informed Sampling-Based Planning to Enable Legged Robots to Safely Negotiate Permeable Obstacles. (opens in a new tab)
- Humanoids, .Kinodynamics-based Pose Optimization for Humanoid Loco-manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), .Learning Multimodal Bipedal Locomotion and Implicit Transitions: A Versatile Policy Approach (opens in a new tab)
- American Control Conference (ACC), .Multi-contact MPC for Dynamic Loco-manipulation on Humanoid Robots. (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LSafety-Aware Perception for Autonomous Collision Avoidance in Dynamic Environments (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went26 listed, 41% to industry
Industry 7Academia 10
Most often to
- Amazon
- Apple
- Ghost Robotics
Also to
- Caltech
- USC
- Carnegie Mellon University
Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
- Round
- Single round (Dec 15)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
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