Meng Chen
HCI Researcher | Humanist Technologist
My research is focused on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-AI Interaction. Specifically, I hope to leverage AI-powered interfaces to achieve accessible communication and effective disambiguation between cognition and computation.
I am exploring elucidating intents in interactions through three directions:
  • 1 translating open-ended human intents into structured machine-understandable formal language;
  • 2 making the computer accurately and naturally capture human intents;
  • 3 designing and deploying human-in-the-loop systems that support human activity.

I am a CS PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin advised by Dr. Amy Pavel. I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame where I was advised by Dr. Toby Jia-jun Li of the ND HCI Group . Previously, I visited UCSD Design Lab working with Dr. Haijun Xia.
Featured Project
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

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)

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