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Dat Nguyen

Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Basis and Harvard

Dat Nguyen is a joint postdoctoral fellow at Basis and at Nada Amin’s lab at Harvard, where he explores the intersection of programming languages and AI. He previously pursued a PhD at the University of Melbourne, leveraging graph modeling and program synthesis to improve deep learning models.

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Position

Joint Postdoctoral Fellow
Basis and Harvard

Education

PhD student
University of Melbourne

Articles

Basis essays and updates this person wrote or contributed to.

ExoPredicator: Abstracting Time and State for Robot Planning

April 22, 2026

We introduce ExoPredicator, a system that learns abstract world models for robot planning. By abstracting state, time, and both endogenous and exogenous causal processes, ExoPredicator enables robots to quickly learn how dynamic environments work and plan efficiently in them.

AutumnBench: World Model Learning in Humans and AI

July 17, 2025

We’re releasing a new version of Autumn with human baseline results, AI performance comparisons, and an interactive benchmark for world model discovery. This release includes the MARA protocol and provides a public platform for testing causal reasoning capabilities.