Research profile

Dongping Chen

Multimodal generation · Agentic intelligence

Biography

Dongping Chen (陈东平) is a Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. He currently works on multimodal generation and agents with Professor Tianyi Zhou and Professor Dinesh Manocha.

Previously, he was a visiting student at the University of Washington, where he worked with Professor Ranjay Krishna and Jieyu Zhang. His academic journey has also included collaborations with Lichao Sun, Xiangliang Zhang, and Yao Wan.

Research Interests

I study multimodal generative models and the agentic systems they power, with an emphasis on evaluation, tool use, efficiency. I am currently working on world model and LLM-based agents

  • Multimodal Understanding and Generation
  • Agentic AI

Publications

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Measuring Visual Generative Intelligence project preview
CVPR 2026 Findings

Measuring Visual Generative Intelligence

Dongping Chen *, Ruoxi Chen *, Xuanao Huang *, Yishan Wang *, Junqi Yang *, Yao Wan†, Ranjay Krishna†

Education

University of MarylandPh.D. Student in Computer Science

University of WashingtonVisiting Scholar

Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyB.Eng.