HCI + AI Researcher

I work on Human-AI Interaction. Current agents are developed and evaluated to autonomously execute well-specified goals. In practice, humans collaborate with agents on long-horizon, underspecified tasks, making effective communication essential. Drawing on human communicative strategies, I evaluate model capabilities and build interactive systems to better multimodal communicative collaboration.

I am a 2nd-year CS PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Amy Pavel. I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame where I worked closely with Toby Jia-jun Li.

Featured Projects

DigitalCoach: Communication and Grounding Gaps in Human and Agentic Computer Use Coaching

Meng Chen, Anya Ji, Tsung-Han Wu, Tobias Maringgele, David M. Chan, Alane Suhr*, Amy Pavel*

Arxiv Preprint

Project Page Paper

TaskArtisan: Designing Composable Generative Widgets for LLM-Assisted Analysis

Meng Chen, Amy Pavel

Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

VL/HCC 2026

Video Paper

Surfacing Variations to Calibrate Perceived Reliability of MLLM-Generated Image Descriptions

Meng Chen, Akhil Iyer, Amy Pavel

ASSETS 2025

Blog Post Project Page Paper

Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation

Sangho Suh*, Meng Chen*, Bryan Min, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Haijun Xia

CHI 2024

Project Page Video Paper

News

Apr 13, 2026
Crepe and DanceA11y are accepted to CHI 2026. Crepe also won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award🏅!
Nov 17, 2025
Gave a talk Surfacing Uncertainty in Image Descriptions at CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar!
Oct 26 - 29, 2025
Presented Surfacing Variations to Calibrate Perceived Reliability of MLLM-Generated Image Descriptions at ASSETS 2025 in Denver, CO, USA.
Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2025
Presented a poster for TaskArtisan at UIST 2025 in Busan, South Korea.
Jan 2, 2025
Our paper Lotus: Creating Short Videos From Long Videos With Abstractive and Extractive Summarization is accepted to IUI 2025!
Oct 13 - 16, 2024
Served as a student volunteer for UIST 2024 in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
May 12 - 16, 2024
Attended CHI 2024 in Honolulu, HI, USA. Hosted demo desk for Luminate.
Mar 14, 2024
Our Paper Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation has been accepted to CHI 2024!
Oct 29 - Nov 01, 2023
Attended UIST 2023 in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jun 05, 2023
Started summer research internship at UCSD Design Lab.
Feb 13 - 14, 2023
Presented An Empirical Study of Developer Behaviors for Validating and Repairing AI-Generated Code in PLATEAU workshop at CMU!