Affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCS PhD Student
Hi, my name is Le Thien Phuc Nguyen.
I am from Vietnam, and I am a CS PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Professor Zhongzheng (Jason) Ren .
Previously, I was an Undergraduate Researcher at Wisconsin AI Vision Lab (WAIV), University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Professor Yong Jae Lee . At WAIV, I am fortunate to work with my mentor Dr. Zhuoran Yu who taught me a lot.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, and Statistics (4 majors) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026.
My research interests focus on multimodal models, with a particular emphasis on video, audio, image, and large language models (LLMs).
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University of Wisconsin - MadisonB.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, Math, and StatisticsSep. 2022 - May. 2026 -
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPh.D. StudentAug. 2026 - present
Honors & Awards
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WACV 2026 Oral Presentation2026
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Gold medal in the ICPC North Central North America (NCNA)2023
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Silver medal in the ICPC North Central North America (NCNA)2022
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Third prize in the Vietnam National Olympiad in Informatics2022
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Second prize in the ICPC Vietnam National Round2021
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Second prize in the Vietnam National University Olympiad in Informatics2021
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Selected Publications (view all )
See, Hear, and Understand: Benchmarking Audiovisual Human Speech Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Samuel Low Yu Hang, Subin An, Jeongik Lee, Yohan Ban, SeungEun Chung, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, JuWan Maeng, Soochahn Lee, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
Findings of The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Findings), 2026
See, Hear, and Understand: Benchmarking Audiovisual Human Speech Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Samuel Low Yu Hang, Subin An, Jeongik Lee, Yohan Ban, SeungEun Chung, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, JuWan Maeng, Soochahn Lee, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
Findings of The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Findings), 2026
GMAT: Grounded Multi-Agent Clinical Description Generation for Text Encoder in Vision-Language MIL for Whole Slide Image Classification
Ngoc Bui Lam Quang, Nam Le Nguyen Binh, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Quan Nguyen, Ulas Bagci
ELAMI Workshop @ the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025
GMAT: Grounded Multi-Agent Clinical Description Generation for Text Encoder in Vision-Language MIL for Whole Slide Image Classification
Ngoc Bui Lam Quang, Nam Le Nguyen Binh, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Quan Nguyen, Ulas Bagci
ELAMI Workshop @ the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2025
Describe Anything Model for Visual Question Answering on Text-rich Images
Yen-Linh Vu, Dinh-Thang Duong, Truong-Binh Duong, Anh-Khoi Nguyen, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jianhua Xing, Xingjian Li, Tianyang Wang, Ulas Bagci, Min Xu
VisionDocs Workshop @ the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
Describe Anything Model for Visual Question Answering on Text-rich Images
Yen-Linh Vu, Dinh-Thang Duong, Truong-Binh Duong, Anh-Khoi Nguyen, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jianhua Xing, Xingjian Li, Tianyang Wang, Ulas Bagci, Min Xu
VisionDocs Workshop @ the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
UniTalk: Towards Universal Active Speaker Detection in Real World Scenarios
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Khoa Quang Nhat Cao, Yuwei Guo, Tu Ho Manh Pham, Tuan Tai Nguyen, Toan Ngo Duc Vo, Lucas Poon, Soochahn Lee, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
arXiv, 2025
UniTalk: Towards Universal Active Speaker Detection in Real World Scenarios
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Khoa Quang Nhat Cao, Yuwei Guo, Tu Ho Manh Pham, Tuan Tai Nguyen, Toan Ngo Duc Vo, Lucas Poon, Soochahn Lee, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
arXiv, 2025
LASER: Lip Landmark Assisted Speaker Detection for Robustness
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026 Oral
LASER: Lip Landmark Assisted Speaker Detection for Robustness
Le Thien Phuc Nguyen*, Zhuoran Yu*, Yong Jae Lee (* equal contribution)
The IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026 Oral