I'm a second-year at Carnegie Mellon University, studying robotics at the School of Computer Science. I get excited about building autonomous robots, and in my free time, you'll find me playing volleyball or grinding League and TFT.
phi nguyen
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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) - Robotics Intern4 months · Los Altos, CASummer 2026 ▸
Incoming
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Sanofi - Robotics Intern4 months · Framingham, MASummer 2025 ▸
Orchestrated a multi-robot system for drug manufacturing, integrating a robotic arm, a liquid handler, and other lab instruments into a unified automated workflow. Applied Bayesian optimization to tune parameters in a protein assay, improving output quality and reducing manual iteration.
Related posts: Sanofi internship ↓
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MIT Media Lab - Research Intern16 months · Cambridge, MAResearch ▸
Lippman Lab — Worked on the Latent Lab project, building data processing pipelines and maintaining GCP servers used to run user studies. Supported research that led to the CHI 2026 paper.
Related posts: CHI 2026 paper ↓, Latent Lab ↓
Esvelt Lab — Worked on open-source tooling for wet lab automation as part of the Sculpting Evolution group. Built hardware interfaces and Python abstractions for liquid handling robots, making them programmable without vendor-specific software. Pioneered the first centrifuge interface.
Related posts: MIT BioMAN 2024 ↓, PyLabRobot ↓
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NASA - VR/AR Software Engineer Intern5 months · Kennedy Space Center, FLSpring 2025 ▸
Worked in NASA's virtual simulation lab, where I helped build out the motion capture volume — setting up and calibrating the full Vicon camera and motion capture system. Wrote Unreal Engine software to pioneer the first controller-free interaction system, letting users manipulate objects in a virtual environment using only natural hand and body movement. Also developed computer vision tooling on the HoloLens to identify and track lab equipment in mixed reality.
Related posts: IEEE xR 2025 paper ↓
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Stanford - Research Intern4 months · RemoteResearch ▸
Pioneered the initial AWS infrastructure for their RNA-seq pipeline, enabling scalable cloud-based genomic data processing. Also worked on machine learning for protein sequences.
Joining Toyota Research Institute as a Robotics Intern this summer at their Los Altos office!
A paper I worked on during my time at the MIT Media Lab got accepted to CHI 2026 HCXAI (Human-Centered Explainable AI workshop)! The paper is titled The Data Mirror: Helping Adolescents See and Shape Their Digital Selves — exploring how to make personal data legible and actionable for younger users.
Quite the humble abode, I must say
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Won HackCMU 2025 with my friends! We built Driftwords — a 3D browser-based meditation and journaling app where you play as a banana cat chilling on a relaxing island. You can walk around, fish, and hang out. It was super fun to make!
Joined CMU Racing on the perceptions team — working on prototyping a CUDA-accelerated LiDAR cone-detection pipeline for an autonomous racecar.
I presented a paper I wrote during my internship at NASA Kennedy Space Center at the IEEE SMC-IT 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. The paper covers hand-object manipulation for VR, exploring how users interact with virtual objects using natural hand gestures in immersive engineering environments.
Working on a multi-robot orchestration system for drug manufacturing at Sanofi. Here, a robotic arm is moving a plate from a rack to another robot to run an experiment — one step in a fully automated lab workflow integrating multiple instruments.
Started working on Latent Lab — an MIT Media Lab (Lippman Lab) project exploring AI-powered knowledge discovery. Building on my previous work there on data pipelines and infrastructure, now contributing directly to the research platform itself.
A massive automated job scraper tracking 200+ companies — built so you'll be the first applicant. Pipes listings straight to you within 30 mins of posting. Let me know if you want to be on the mailing list or just make a PR!
This is what I mean when I say I know a spot
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I'd sit here for a while
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I was invited to present at MIT BioMAN 2024 — a symposium on biological manufacturing and automation. Gave a talk on building intelligent agents for lab automation: how you can layer LLM-driven planning on top of hardware abstraction SDKs like PyLabRobot to let researchers describe experiments in plain language and have them executed autonomously.
A Python SDK for wet lab automation I worked on as an intern at the Media Lab.
Idek what to say for this. I thought it was pretty cool
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