Hi, I am Dongping Chen (陈东平).
At present, I am working with Professor Tianyi Zhou at UMD. Prior to this, I have the privilege of being a visiting student to University of Washington, where I work with Professors Ranjay Krishna and Senior PhD Jieyu Zhang. My academic journey has also been enriched by a collaboration with Lichao Sun at Lehigh University, Xiangliang Zhang at University of Notre Dame and Yao Wan at HUST. I am also leading an undergrad research lab with Professor Yao Wan, and very lucky to have the opportunity to work with my labmates.
My research interests are deeply rooted in the latest advancements in generative models, especially multimodal, LLM-based agents and frontier trustworthy problems.
I’m looking for summer intern opportunities in 2026 summer and feel free to reach out.
I’m interested in connecting with students for research collaboration, mentorship, or just making friends! I especially encourage junior student or students from underrepresented groups to reach out. Feel free to schedule a meeting via this link.
📝 Publications
* indicates equal contribution. ‡ indicates project leaders.


GUI-World: A Dataset for GUI-oriented Multimodal LLM-based Agents [PDF] [Github] [Website]
*, Yue Huang *, Siyuan Wu, Jingyu Tang, Liuyi Chen, Yilin Bai, Zhigang He, Chenlong Wang, Huichi Zhou, Yiqiang Li, Tianshuo Zhou, Yue Yu, Chujie Gao, Qihui Zhang, Yi Gui, Zhen Li, Yao Wan†, Pan Zhou†, Jianfeng Gao, Lichao Sun








Wait, We Don’t Need to “Wait”! Removing Thinking Tokens Improves Reasoning Efficiency [PDF] (Code Coming Soon)
Chenlong Wang, Yuanning Feng,
‡, Zhaoyang Chu, Ranjay Krishna, Tianyi Zhou†

Wikipedia in the Era of LLMs: Evolution and Risks [PDF]
Siming Huang *, Yuliang Xu *, Mingmeng Geng†, Yao Wan†,
‡


The Impact of Large Language Models in Academia: from Writing to Speaking [PDF]
Mingmeng Geng†, Caixi Chen, Yanru Wu,
‡, Yao Wan, Pan Zhou📖 Educations
- 2025.08 - Current, CS PhD Student, University of Maryland.
- 2024.08 - 2024.12, Visiting Scholar, University of Washington.
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, BEng., Huazhong University of Science and Technology.