Meng Chen
HCI + AI Researcher
I work on Human-AI Interaction. Humans and agentic systems now collaborate on long-horizon tasks. What are the key model capabilities and system design that make collaboration effective? To this end, I evaluate model propensities and build interactive systems to better grounded and communicative interactions.

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

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

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

Meng Chen, Akhil Iyer, Amy Pavel
ASSETS 2025
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Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation

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
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