Welcome!

I am Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and direct the Smart Robotic Lab at Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool. I received my PhD from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy. Previously, I worked at the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, Australian National University, Inria, and The University of Adelaide. I am an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics.

My research goal is to develop methods that enable robots to see and act like humans.

• Vision: Segmentation, detection, medical imaging
• Machine Learning: Efficient model, generative model, federated learning
• Robotics: Autonomous manipulation, autonomous catheterisation

Prospective Students: I am always looking for motivated PhD students with/without scholarships. Please send an email to anh.nguyen@liverpool.ac.uk to discuss your research interests. Some scholarships at University of Liverpool: N0MES CDT, CSC-Liverpool, and others.

News:

• 06/2025 Our team is organising workshops on AI Agents for Surgery at Hamlyn Symposium, Agentic AI for Medicine and Data Engineering in Medical Imaging at MICCAI 2025. Paper submissions are welcome.
• 06/2025 Five papers accepted to IROS 2025! Congrats to all students!
• 05/2025 I was selected as outstanding Associate Editor at ICRA 2025. Thanks to all reviewers!
• 04/2025 Our paper LP-Diff: Towards Improved Restoration of Real-World Degraded License Plate is selected as Hightlight paper in CVPR 2025!
• 02/2025 Three papers accepted to CVPR 2025! Congrats to all students!
• 01/2025 Six papers accepted to ICRA 2025! Congrats to all students and collaborators!
• 12/2024 New PhD Positions in Foundation Models for Aerial Robotics with RMIT University. Apply here and here.
• 11/2024 One paper accepted to Transactions on Image Processing. Congrats Jianyang! Preprint and code.
• 09/2024 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024 as a Spotlight. Congrats Zhaorui! Preprint and code.
• 08/2024 Our paper Language-Driven 6-DoF Grasp Detection Using Negative Prompt Guidance and Adaptive Parametric Activation are selected as oral presentation in ECCV 2024.
• 07/2024 Three papers accepted to ECCV. Big congrats to Nhat, Toan, Kostas and all teams!
• 06/2024 Two papers accepted to MICCAI and three papers accepted to IROS. Congrats to all students!
• 05/2024 New PhD and Postdoctoral Positions in Foundation Models for Robotic Applications. Apply here.
• 04/2024 Our paper CathSim: An Open-source Simulator for Endovascular Intervention has been accepted to T-MRB. Congrats Tudor! Source code is available here.
• 02/2024 One paper accepted to CVPR 2024. Preprint coming soon!
• 01/2024 We have five papers accepted to ICRA 2024. Big congratulations to all students and co-authors!
• 12/2023 Our paper Shape-Sensitive Loss for Catheter and Guidewire Segmentation won the Best Paper Award at International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2023.
• 12/2023 One paper accepted to AAAI 2024. Congrats Jianyang!
• 10/2023 Our paper Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Point Clouds is selected as Best Overall and Best Student Paper award candidate at IROS 2023.
• 09/2023 One paper accepted to NeurIPS. Congrats An!
• 08/2023 One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 journal track and Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
• 07/2023 Our paper Reducing Training Time in Cross-Silo Federated Learning using Multigraph Topology has been accepted to ICCV 2023. Congrats team!
• 06/2023 One paper accepted to MICCAI 2023. Congrats Baoru!
• 06/2023 Our paper Open-Vocabulary Affordance Detection in 3D Point Clouds has been accepted to IROS 2023.
• 06/2023 One fully-funded PhD studentship is available. Apply here.
• 06/2023 I give a talk at Force and Shape Perception for Surgical Instruments and Robots workshop in ICRA 2023.
• 05/2023 I co-organize the Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI) workshop in MICCAI, and Robotic Awareness and Autonomy in Surgery workshop in the Hamlyn Symposium this year.
• 04/2023 One 2 years RA position is available. Apply here.
• 03/2023 Two papers accepted to Briefings in Bioinformatics (IF=13.9) and IFAC World Congress 2023.
• 02/2023 One paper accepted to CVPR 2023. Congrats Nhat and the whole team!
• 02/2023 One KTP grant accepted!
• 01/2023 I’ll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2023, and Program Chair for BMVC 2023.
• 12/2022 One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IF=4.7) and Information Fusion (IF=17.5).
• 10/2022 I’ll serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2023.
• 09/2022 One paper accepted in WACV 2022.
• 07/2022 I’ll serve as a PC for BMVC 2022.
• 07/2022 One paper accepted in ECCV 2022. Congrats Kostas!
• 06/2022 I’ll give a talk at Towards Versatile and Seamless Surgical Technologies workshop in HSMR 2022.
• 06/2022 One paper accepted in MICCAI 2022. Congrats Baoru!
• 05/2022 One fully-funded PhD studentship is available. Apply here.
• 04/2022 One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. Congrats Baoru!
• 04/2022 One paper accepted to 33rd IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium.
• 03/2022 I’m organizing the Recent Advances in Autonomous Surgery workshop in the Hamlyn Symposium On Medical Robotics 2022.
• 01/2022 I’ll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2022.
• 01/2022 One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF=11.0).
• 12/2021 Our paper Occlusion-robust Visual Markerless Bone Tracking for Computer-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement. Congrats Xue!
• 11/2021 Our paper Global-local attention for emotion recognition has been accepted to Neural Computing and Applications. Congrats Nhat & Khanh!
• 10/2021 Our paper Deep Federated Learning for Autonomous Driving is available on arXiv
• 09/2021 Our paper Light-weight Deformable Registration using Adversarial Learning with Distilling Knowledge is available on arXiv with code
• 06/2021 Two papers accepted in MICCAI 2021, preprints coming soon!
• 05/2021 I’m organizing the Soft, Smart, Multi-functional, Agile and Aware Surgical Robots: Progress And Technologies workshop in the Hamlyn Symposium On Medical Robotics 2021. Poster submissions are welcome with £300 for the best poster award!
• 05/2021 Our paper Graph-based Person Signature for Person Re-Identifications is available on arXiv with code.
• 04/2021 Our paper An MR-Safe Endovascular Robotic Framework: Design, Control, and Preclinical Evaluation has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.