Shenghui Chen CS PhD @UTAustin

Shenghui (Vivian) Chen

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Professor Ufuk Topcu. I obtained B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, advised by Professor Lu Feng.

My research interest is in human-centered AI, with a focus on collaborative agents that infer intent, adapt their behavior, and communicate effectively with people. Recently, I have also become interested in human-centered evaluation of vision-language models (VLMs).

I am currently seeking opportunities for industry collaboration. Please feel free to reach out via shenghui.chen [at] utexas [dot] edu!

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News & Updates

  • Nov 2025 – Glad to be shortlisted for the ADF 2025 Rising Stars Asia program, see here.
  • Sep 2025 – Our paper on annotation-free video-to-text evaluation has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! Learn more on our project page.
  • Aug 2025 – Check out our new preprint on annotation-free video-to-text evaluation, introducing VIBE to select captions as human-centered TL;DRs
  • Aug 2025 – Presented at the NSF CPS Frontier Site Visit, Purdue University on title “Communicating “Just Enough” Information to Enhance Human-Agent Collaboration”

Publications

Human-Agent Collaboration

XAI and Human Trust

Multi-Agent Interaction & Game Theory

Blog Posts

Dec 2022 A function primer for optimization Different types of functions essential in optimization.

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