Binh Nguyen

Binh Nguyen Ph.D. Student CS Robotics Lab Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Advisor: Professor Jeff Trinkle

Contact

Office: 330D, Materials Research Center
Phone: (518)-276-2514
nguyeb2 AT rpi DOT edu

Interests and current research

• Physical simulation

• Linear and Nonlinear Complementarity problems

• Optimization

Education

• ENG. (rank 5th over 420+ students),Department of Information Technology, University of Technology of HCMC, Vietnam, 2001.

Honors

• VEF fellowship, 2005.

Work experiences

• Programmer, Lead programmer GlassEgg Digital Media, 2001-2005.

Software

• DVC2D, an accurate 2D physical simulation with many time steppers

Publications

• Stephen Berard, Jeff Trinkle, Binh Nguyen, Benjamin Roghani, Vijay Kumar, and Jonathan Fink. davinci code: A multi-model simulation and analysis tool for multi-body systems. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2007 [.pdf]

Public talks

• Comparative study of methods for modeling contact and friction in physical simulation. on Second Mathematical Programming Society International Conference on Continuous Optimization link [.pdf]

• Modelling nonconvex C-Space using LCP (Egan-Trinkle method), ARL labtalk [.pdf]

• Methods to solve LCPs in Multi-Rigid-Bodies simulation, ARL labtalk [.ppt]