Hi, I am Mingchen! I am a PhD candidate with a strong interest in multimodal agents and world models, including their training (especially post-training) and applications. I am fortunate to have Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber as my advisor. I have 20+ top-tier publications and over 4,000 citations (75% from first-author papers). My work includes early agentic explorations such as MetaGPT , GPTSwarm
, OpenDevin (aka. OpenHands)
, agent-as-a-judge
, and HGM
. My papers on multimodal agents were accepted as oral presentations at ICLR (<1.2%), ICML (<1.5%), received the Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS Ro-FoMo Workshop, and Outstanding Paper Nomitation at EMNLP 2025. I was nominated for WAIC Future Star Nomination and recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR2023 (232 out of 7000+).
📣 I am seeking jobs, and if you are a team lead who is interested, please contact me at mingchen dot zhuge at kaust dot edu dot sa.
2026 Jan 14, I serve as Area Chair at COLM 2026.
2026 Jan 5, The ICLR 2026 Workshop on AI with Recursive Self-Improvement launches, welcome to submit papers: [Link].
2025 Dec 17, Start a 10-day Christmas traveling to Kenya and Rwanda.
2025 Dec 3, Our proposal for the ICLR 2026 Workshop on AI with Recursive Self-Improvement has been accepted [Link].
2025 Nov 20, Back to the KAUST Campus.
2025 Nov 18, We release our multimodal generation paper (Mixture-of-State) [Paper].
2025 Nov 14, Finished the internship at Meta.