Publications

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* Equal contribution.

2026

  • AAMAS Overview of IG-MCTS: Human-in-the-Loop Cooperative Navigation under Incomplete Information

    IG-MCTS: Human-in-the-Loop Cooperative Navigation under Incomplete Information

    Shenghui Chen*, Ruihan Zhao*, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2026 · (Extended Abstract)

  • CACM Overview of What We are Missing in Multimodal LLM Evaluation?

    What We are Missing in Multimodal LLM Evaluation?

    Po-han Li*, Shenghui Chen*, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    Communications of the ACM, 2026 · (Accepted for publication)

  • TMLR Overview of VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze

    VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze

    Shenghui Chen, Po-han Li, Ximeng Sun, Shijia Yang, Emad Barsoum, Zicheng Liu, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026 · (Accepted for publication)

2025

  • JAAMAS Overview of Relationship Design for Socially-Aware Behavior in Static Games

    Relationship Design for Socially-Aware Behavior in Static Games

    Shenghui Chen*, Yigit E. Bayiz*, David Fridovich-Keil, Ufuk Topcu

    Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), 2025

  • ArXiv

    Evaluating Human Trust in LLM-Based Planners: A Preliminary Study

    Shenghui Chen, Yunhao Yang, Kayla Boggess, Seongkook Heo, Lu Feng, Ufuk Topcu

    ArXiv, 2025

  • OVERLAY

    Learning to Coordinate without Communication under Incomplete Information

    Shenghui Chen, Shufang Zhu, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Ufuk Topcu

    International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Formal Verification, Logic, Automata, and Synthesis (OVERLAY), 2025

  • AAMAS Overview of Human-Agent Coordination in Games under Incomplete Information via Multi-Step Intent

    Human-Agent Coordination in Games under Incomplete Information via Multi-Step Intent

    Shenghui Chen*, Ruihan Zhao*, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025

  • NeurIPS Overview of VIBE: Annotation-Free Video-to-Text Information Bottleneck Evaluation for TL;DR

    VIBE: Annotation-Free Video-to-Text Information Bottleneck Evaluation for TL;DR

    Shenghui Chen*, Po-han Li*, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

2024

  • ACC

    Deceptive Planning for Resource Allocation

    Shenghui Chen, Yagiz Savas, Mustafa O. Karabag, Brian Sadler, Ufuk Topcu

    American Control Conference (ACC), 2024

  • IJCAI Overview of Human-Agent Cooperation in Games under Incomplete Information through Natural Language Communication

    Human-Agent Cooperation in Games under Incomplete Information through Natural Language Communication

    Shenghui Chen, Daniel Fried, Ufuk Topcu

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Human-Centred AI, 2024

2023

  • ACC Overview of Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games

    Cost Design in Atomic Routing Games

    Yue Yu, Shenghui Chen, David Fridovich-Keil, Ufuk Topcu

    American Control Conference (ACC), 2023

  • CDC Overview of Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning

    Soft-Bellman Equilibrium in Affine Markov Games: Forward Solutions and Inverse Learning

    Shenghui Chen, Yue Yu, David Fridovich-Keil, Ufuk Topcu

    Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023

2022

  • ICCPS

    Multi-Objective Controller Synthesis with Uncertain Human Preferences

    Shenghui Chen*, Kayla Boggess*, David Parker, Lu Feng

    International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2022

2020

  • IROS

    Towards Transparent Robotic Planning via Contrastive Explanations

    Shenghui Chen*, Kayla Boggess*, Lu Feng

    International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020