I am a research scientist at Netflix, working on GenAI and computer vision applications. I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering while working in the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab, advised by Prof. Gordon Wetzstein. There, I developed domain-specific camera algorithms for problems such as motion deblurring and low-light imaging.
Before that, I received my B.S. in Bioengineering also at Stanford, where I worked on CRISPR genome editing while advised by Prof. Stanley Qi (which included a lot of pipetting).
Having grown up first-generation and low-income, I’m passionate about supporting underrepresented minorities, so please reach out if you’re a minority in research/tech and want to chat!
Hats I've Worn
Diffusion in the Dark: A Diffusion Model for Low-Light Text Recognition
Cindy M. Nguyen, Eric R. Chan, Alexander W. Bergman, Gordon Wetzstein
WACV, 2024
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Learning Spatially Varying Pixel Exposures for Motion Deblurring
Cindy M. Nguyen, Julien N.P. Martel, Gordon Wetzstein
ICCP, 2022
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Depth from Defocus with Learned Optics for Imaging and Occlusion-Aware Depth Estimation
Hayato Ikoma, Cindy M. Nguyen, Christopher A. Metzler, Yifan Peng, Gordon Wetzstein
ICCP, 2021
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CRISPR-mediated Live Imaging of Genome Editing and Transcription
Haifeng Wang, Muneaki Nakamura, Timothy R. Abbott, Dehua Zhao, Kaiwen Luo, Cordelia Yu, Cindy M. Nguyen, Albert Lo, Timothy P. Daley, Marie La Russa, Yanxia Liu, Lei S. Qi
Science, 2019
[paper]
CRISPR-Mediated Programmable 3D Genome Positioning and Nuclear Organization
Haifeng Wang, Xiaoshu Xu, Cindy M. Nguyen, Yanxia Liu, Yuchen Gao, Xueqiu Lin, Timothy P. Daley, Nathan H. Kipniss, Marie La Russa, Lei S. Qi
Cell, 2018
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Press: Stanford Medicine, Stanford Daily, Quanta, Science
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While I was at Stanford, I co-founded STEM to SHTEM with Prof. Tsachy Weissman for high school and community college students to pursue summer research. Starting research when I was 16 was life-changing, so I'm grateful to help give that experience to others.
Before grad school, I had the honor of working with Stanford FAST and had a couple of outreach projects supported by Google igniteCS and Stanford Educational Partnerships. I like to think that I helped a kid or two.
I have been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to travel, sometimes through work and most times for fun. Some of my favorite memories have been made through solo traveling through Germany, exploring national parks, and eating many, many desserts in Japan.
