🤖 I started my internship at Daxo Robotics, building a 120-DoF dexterous robotic hand!
I work across hardware, software, and AI/ML for the hand — watch the demo on LinkedIn.
About Me
I’m a PhD candidate at GWU started in Fall 2024, supervised by Dr. Tian Lan. My research directions include AI, robotics and AR/VR technology.
I have interdisciplinary research experience in Robotics, Agentic AI, Extended Reality and Electrical Systems. My past works and publications span robot learning, perception, bio-inspired robotics design, agentic AI, human-robot teamming, and so on.
Looking ahead, I am interested in developing intelligent systems that can perceive, reason, and act in complex physical environments and automate multiple challenging tasks. I believe AI and robotics have the power to change our world in profound ways.
Interests
- Agentic AI
- Machine Learning
- Robotics
- Extended Reality
Education
PhD Electrical Engineering
George Washington University
MSc Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
BEng Automation
Southwest Jiaotong University
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Publications
From Description to Interactive VR Scene: An LLM Agent for Authoring Immersive Experiences
Rongqian Chen, Allison Andreyev, Xuan Wang, Jianan Jiang, Bin Li, Tian Lan
2026 IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS) Workshop on Visualization and Generative AI (VIS × GenAI) (Accepted)
PDAGENT-BENCH: Characterizing, Grounding, and Architecting LLM/VLM Agents for VLSI Physical Design
Qiufeng Li, Rongqian Chen, Quan Cheng, Chengxuan Wang, Sizhe Tang, Chia-Tung Ho, David Z. Pan, Tian Lan, Weidong Cao
arXiv preprint
IntentScore: Intent-Conditioned Action Evaluation for Computer-Use Agents
Rongqian Chen, Yu Li, Zeyu Fang, Sizhe Tang, Weidong Cao, Tian Lan
arXiv preprint
Uncertainty Mitigation and Intent Inference: A Dual-Mode Human-Machine Joint Planning System
Zeyu Fang, Yuxin Lin, Cheng Liu, Beomyeol Yu, Zeyuan Yang, Rongqian Chen, Taeyoung Lee, Mahdi Imani, Tian Lan
2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Human-Robot Dynamics (HRD) (Accepted)
FlowEdit: Information-Theoretic Control of LLM Reasoning Flows for Ill-posed Problems Involving Conflicts
Sizhe Tang, Guangyu Jiang, Yu Li, Rongqian Chen, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Tian Lan
2026 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI (MATH-AI) (Accepted)
Reasoning Knowledge-Gap in Drone Planning via LLM-based Active Elicitation
Zeyu Fang, Beomyeol Yu, Cheng Liu, Zeyuan Yang, Rongqian Chen, Yuxin Lin, Mahdi Imani, Tian Lan
AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium (Accepted)
Agent Alpha: Tree Search Unifying Generation, Exploration and Evaluation for Computer-Use Agents
Sizhe Tang, Rongqian Chen, Tian Lan
2026 Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) (Accepted)
ACDZero: Graph-Embedding-Based Tree Search for Mastering Automated Cyber Defense
Yu Li, Sizhe Tang, Rongqian Chen, Fei Xu Yu, Guangyu Jiang, Mahdi Imani, Nathaniel D Bastian, Tian Lan
2026 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Workshop (Accepted)
Perception Graph for Cognitive Attack Reasoning in Augmented Reality
Rongqian Chen, Shu Hong, Rifatul Islam, Mahdi Imani, Gang Tan, Tian Lan
2025 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing Workshop (MobiHoc)
Time-Aware LSTM for Gaze Prediction in Mixed Reality Under Latency Perturbations
Shu Hong, Rongqian Chen, Rifatul Islam, Mahdi Imani, Gang Tan, Tian Lan
2025 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing Workshop (MobiHoc) (Best Poster Award)
A Neurosymbolic Framework for Interpretable Cognitive Attack Detection in Augmented Reality
Rongqian Chen, Allison Andreyev, Yanming Xiu, Mahdi Imani, Bin Li, Maria Gorlatova, Gang Tan, Tian Lan
Accepted by 2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings
Design and Characterization of a Pneumatic Tunable-Stiffness Bellows Actuator
Rongqian Chen, Jun Kwon, Wei-Hsi Chen, Cynthia Sung
2024 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)
Design and Control of a Tunable-Stiffness Coiled-Spring Actuator
Shivangi Misra, Mason Mitchell, Rongqian Chen, Cynthia Sung
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
A Cluster-Based Weighted Feature Similarity Moving Target Tracking Algorithm for Automotive FMCW Radar
Rongqian Chen, Yingquan Zou, Anyong Gao, Leshi Chen
2022-Spring IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Stability improvement of pulse power supply with dual-inductance active storage unit using hysteresis current control
Ping Yang, Xi Chen, Rongqian Chen, Yusheng Peng, Songrong Wu, Jianping Xu
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
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