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Tien Q. Dam

(Call me: /tee-EN/)
Phd Student
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
damtien440 (at) gmail.com


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I’m currently a doctoral student at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) and will be working in the field of Social Interaction & Multimodal AI under the supervision of Dr. Philipp Müller at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

I hold a master’s degree from Ritsumeikan University, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Joo-Ho Lee and Asst. Prof. Dinh-Tuan Tran. My Bachelor of Engineering is from Danang University of Technology (DUT), where I worked with Dr. Ninh Khanh Duy, and as part of the netsec-it lab under Dr. Le Tran Duc.

Beyond research, I like astronomy, I served as president of the Danang Astronomy Club, organizing observing events and creating science outreach content to spark public interest in the cosmos. When I’m not working on robotics or stargazing, you’ll find me hiking and exploring nature.

What I’m focused on right now.

News

2026
2025
  • [Otc 2025] I'll join VinMotion as an intern to work on data infrastructure for humanoid robot fleet.
  • [Oct 2025] Exciting news! PainDiffusion has been awarded as IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award.
  • [Aug 2025] I got travel grant to IROS.
  • [Jun 2025] PainDiffusion got accepted to IROS 2025. ✌️
2024
  • [Apr 2024] We won The Second REACT Challenge@IEEE FG24!


Selected Publications

  1. IROS2025
    PainDiffusion: Learning to Express Pain
    Quang Tien Dam, Tri Tung Nguyen Nguyen, Dinh Tuan Tran, Joo-Ho Lee
    PDF Project Page
    IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award

  2. FG2024
    Finite Scalar Quantization as Facial Tokenizer for Dyadic Reaction Generation
    Quang Tien Dam, Tri Tung Nguyen Nguyen, Dinh Tuan Tran, Joo-Ho Lee
    IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2024.
    PDF Code BibTex
    Winner of The Second REACT Challenge@IEEE FG24

Awards

Master's (2023-2025)
  • IROS Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award, IROS2025, Hangzhou 2025
  • IEEE RAS Travel Grant to IROS 2025
  • First Prize in the Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge at IEEE FG 2024
  • Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Master's Degree 2023
Bachelor's (2018-2023)
  • Second Prize, Science-A-Thon Competition at Vietnam Summer School of Science 2022
  • Vallet Merit Scholarship by Rencontres Du Vietnam (US$1200) 2022
  • Murata Scholarship (US$600) for two years 2021 and 2022
  • Best Paper Award, Student Scientific Research Conference at DUT in two consecutive years of 2021 and 2022
  • First Prize (Team), Maker to Entrepreneur Program by ASU, DOW Vietnam and USAID Vietnam 2020

Miss but an hour's fated meeting, and lifetimes pass before next greeting.