Binh Nguyen is a Robotics Scientist and Tech Lead with over ten years of experience across aerospace, defence, and commercial robotics, building safety-critical autonomous platforms from concept through deployment. His end-to-end technical leadership spans perception, planning, control, and digital-twin infrastructure, with a track record of leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient autonomous systems.

He currently leads system development for a decentralised drone swarm framework for Defence applications at UNSW Canberra, owning outcomes end-to-end from architecture through integration and field deployment.

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy | Robotics & AI
Federation University Australia, Churchill, Victoria, Australia
May 2022 – Oct 2025
Thesis recommended for a Dean’s Excellence Award by an independent external examiner. [Examiner Report]

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) | Electronics & Communication Engineering
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Hanoi, Vietnam
2012 – 2017
#1 in Vietnam during 2012–2018 by Scimago Institutions Rankings.

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Engineering Skills

• Simulation & Virtual Validation: SIL/HIL testing infrastructure design and deployment; digital-twin development (X-Plane, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Unity, Gazebo, MATLAB/Simulink); CI/CD validation pipelines; test automation; systematic failure mode analysis
• Autonomous System Architecture: Full-stack understanding of perception, planning, control, and vehicle integration; system-level validation across subsystem interactions; design for testability
• Software & Middleware: ROS/ROS2 (modular architecture, multi-subsystem integration), PX4, Ardupilot; Python/C/C++ on RTOS and Embedded Linux; real-time deterministic systems
• Autonomy & Control: Guidance, navigation and control algorithms; EKF-based state estimation (AHRS, INS/GNSS); trajectory planning; FDIR; VTOL transition control; motor/gimbal control
• Sensing & Perception: Depth cameras (Intel RealSense, OAK-D), thermal cameras, LiDAR, laser range finders, RTK-GNSS; OpenCV, YOLO, FFmpeg, GStreamer
• Communication & Telemetry: Telemetry and command interfaces, data logging, ground control station integration; MAVLink, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART

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Professional Certifications

• Remote Pilot Licence (RePL) & Aeronautical Radio Operator Certificate (AROC), issued by Civil Aviation Safety Authority (2025)

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Selected Publications

All journal articles are Q1 and all first-authored. See Google Scholar · ORCID · IEEE for the full list.

1. Binh Nguyen, et al., “Non-Conservative Efficient Collision Checking and Depth Noise-Awareness for Trajectory Planning,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 7859–7866, Aug. 2025. (Ranked #1 in Robotics by Google Scholar Metrics; invited to present at ICRA 2026).

2. Binh Nguyen, et al., “Online State-to-State Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Quadrotors in Unknown Cluttered Environments,” Proc. 2024 Int. Conf. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 309–316, 2024.

3. Binh Nguyen, et al., “Depth-based Sampling and Steering Constraints for Memoryless Local Planners,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 109, no. 11, p. 46, 2023. (Ranked #18 in Robotics by Google Scholar Metrics).

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Featured Projects

• ROS2 Swarming Digital Twin: Full-stack simulation and digital twin system with CI/CD validation pipelines onto real hardware
• Fly-by-Voice: VLM-powered autonomous navigation with natural language command interfaces and deterministic safety guarantees
• Brover: Autonomous ground robot with multimodal sensing (RGB-D, thermal) and AI-powered interface (NVIDIA Academic Grant ~$25K AUD)
• Autonomous Target Tracking: Detection and tracking of moving ground targets, validated through simulation-to-deployment pipelines
• Precision Landing on Moving Platforms: Vision-based autonomous landing system

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Grants

• NVIDIA Academic Grant (2026) - Unrestricted gift to UNSW in support of the Brover project: 32K A100 GPU-Hours on Brev and 2× Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kits