Khanh Nguyen

Khanh Nguyen is a postdoc at CHAI, being mentored by Prof. Stuart Russell. Prior to joining CHAI, he spent a year as a postdoc at Princeton NLP with Prof. Karthik Narasimhan. Khanh obtained his PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park, under the guidance of Prof. Hal Daumé III. His research aims to enhance the performance and safety of AI agents by enabling them to communicate and collaborate more effectively with humans. He has developed frameworks for learning from natural language feedback and for learning to ask natural, uncertainty-grounded questions. Previously, he worked on reinforcement learning from human ratings for text generation, which is a currently popular method for fine-tuning large language models like GPTs.