Human-Centered 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 build and evaluate models and interactive systems to better multimodal communicative collaboration.

I am a 3rd-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.

I'm actively seeking research internship positions for Summer 2027, especially in Real-Time Conversational Agents, Agent Evaluation and Post-training, and User Simulations. You can check out my publications or CV for more details.
I'm always down to chat about potential opportunities or collaborations! Just send me an email.

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*

EMNLP 2026 Oral (Top 3%)

Project Page Paper

TaskArtisan: Designing Composable Generative Widgets for LLM-Assisted Analysis

Meng Chen, Amy Pavel

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

May 18, 2026
Started summer research internship at Autodesk Research in San Francisco, CA, USA!
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!