About Me

Hi, my name is Tung Do. I am a Chief Engineer and Senior Humanoid Robotics Engineer at VinMotion, a humanoid robotics company founded by Professor Quan Nguyen. I joined the company at its founding in 2025 and have worked on its humanoid platforms Motion1, Motion2, and MiniMotion, taking them from early hardware bring-up to real-world deployment in entertainment, hospitality, and education settings, as well as emerging applications in companion and healthcare robotics.

As a Senior Humanoid Robotics Engineer, my work centers on humanoid locomotion and whole-body control, sim-to-real transfer, and the systems infrastructure that makes these capabilities reliable on physical robots. I have developed model-based controllers built on convex MPC, as well as reinforcement learning methods for locomotion, balance recovery, motion imitation from human demonstrations, and perception-driven interaction with the environment. In parallel, I lead the development of high-fidelity simulation, automated robot modeling and validation pipelines, hardware unit testing, CI/CD, and structured Sim2Sim and Sim2Real release processes, connecting robot design, controller development, and real-world deployment.

As Chief Engineer for MiniMotion, I lead the technical direction of the platform, from defining application scenarios and the product roadmap to hardware configuration, computing and sensor selection, mechanical and electrical design reviews, quality, and field deployment, and I coordinate feature development across the locomotion, manipulation, navigation, and human-robot interaction teams. More broadly, I am interested in how model-based and learning-based control can be combined to produce humanoid behaviors that are agile, safe, and robust outside the laboratory.

Before joining VinMotion, I received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a Robotics focus from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2025. During my studies, I worked with Professor Ram Vasudevan at the ROAHM Lab, Professor Katherine Skinner at the University of Michigan Field Robotics Group.

Professional

Senior Humanoid Robotics Engineer | Chief Engineer, VinMotion
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Michigan Field Robotics Group
Graduate Research Assistant, Robotics and Optimization for Analysis of Human Motion (ROAHM) Lab
Advanced Mobility Tech Engineering Intern, PACCAR

Education

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Robotics), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2023 - 2025
B.S. in Electromechanical Systems Engineering Technology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2018 - 2023