Hello!😊 I’m a fourth-year PhD candidate of Harbin Institute of Technology, majoring in Computer Science, at Computing Faculty.

🎖️ 2026 Baidu Scholarship · Top-20 Nominee 🏆 NeurIPS 2024 Oral 🏆 ACL 2024 Oral 🏆 AAAI 2025 Oral

My research interests include Multi-modal, Multi-lingual and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning. If you are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at charleschen2333@gmail.com.

Currently, I am a PhD at SCIR supervised by Prof. Wanxiang Che and Prof. Libo Qin. Previously, as a PhD student, I did a research internship at ByteDance Seed, supervised by Yantao Du, Ge Zhang, and Wenhao Huang. As a master’s student, I did a research internship at Shanghai AI Laboratory , supervised by Dr. Zhi Chen. As an undergraduate student, I did a research internship at Baidu NLP , supervised by Lijie Wang and Dr. Jing Liu.

Other than my work, I’m honored as Deputy Secretary-General for MLNLP community and Member of the Presidium of the Student Union of the Department of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology. Previously, I was the president of HIT Software Competition Club from 2021 to 2023.

🔥 News

  • 2026.11 🎉 I am named a Top-20 nominee of the 2026 Baidu Scholarship.
  • 2026.08 🎉 We release VibeLifeBench, a benchmark for proactive and persistent life agents in a living world.
  • 2026.08 🎉 Our OffSeeker is accepted by EMNLP 2026, and Learning the Boundary of Solvability is accepted by EMNLP 2026 (Findings).
  • 2026.07 🎉 We release RSIBench-Data for benchmarking data-centric research in recursive self-improvement.
  • 2026.05 🎉 Our RBF++ is accepted by TPAMI 2026 (IF 18+). Our AI4Research Survey is accepted by SCIS 2026.
  • 2026.04 🎉 Our OMIBench and Dashboard2Code are accepted by ACL 2026 (Oral). Our UL-XCoT is accepted by ACL 2026.
  • 2026.02 🎉 Congratulations to our collaborators! Our Think-with-Video is accepted by CVPR 2026.
  • 2026.01 🎉 Congratulations to our collaborators! Our Refusal Index is accepted by ICLR 2026.

📝 Publications

Classified by main research concern (Partial)

🎯 Chain-of-Thought & Reasoning

🕹️ Agents

AI4Research

👀 Multi-Modal Modelling & Reasoning

🏳️‍🌈 Multilingual Modelling & Reasoning

🎙️ Dialogue System

Others

🎖️ Honors

  • Baidu Scholarship Nominee (Global Top 20) 2026
  • Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (Doctoral Program) 2025
  • National Scholarship 2024
  • Tencent Scholarship 2024
  • Graduate Special Scholarship 2023
  • Outstanding Graduates 2023
  • CCF Excellent College Students Prize (Only 100 CS students in China were invited) 2022
  • EMNLP MMNLU Workshop Best Paper 2022
  • 1st place in MMNLU Workshop Full-shot Setting 2022
  • National Second Prize in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, China 2021

📖 Educations

  • 2023.09 - Now PhD Student, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin.
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06 Undergraduate, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin.

💻 Work Experience

  • 2025.07 - 2026.04 ByteDance Seed, Beijing.
  • 2024.07 - 2024.10 Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai.
  • 2022.06 - 2022.12 Baidu, Beijing.

🤗 Community Services

  • NLP Reviewer ACL 2024-2025 ARR, EMNLP 2024-2025 ARR, NAACL 2024-2025 ARR, NLPCC 2024-2025, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (Q1; IF: 5.1).
  • ML Reviewer Neurips 2024-2025, ICLR 2025-2026, ICML 2025.
  • AI Reviewer Nature Machine Intelligence, AAAI 2026, ACM MM 2025, Information Sciences (Q1; IF: 6.8), Neurocomputing (Q1; IF: 6.5), PeerJ Computer Science (Q2; IF 2.5).
  • Community MLNLP-2022/2023 Outstanding Organizer.

😊 Undergraduate Collaborators

I enjoy working with passionate undergraduates who have strong coding/math skills and bring fresh inspiration. If you’re interested in collaborating, please feel free to email me.

Here are the undergraduate collaborators I’ve been fortunate to work with:

  • Wenbo Pan: HIT -> CityUHK (PhD Stu.)
  • Yuhang Zhou: HIT -> FDU (Master Stu.)
  • Jin Zhang & Zhixiong Zhang: HIT -> Shanghai AI Lab (PhD Stu.)
  • Yongheng Zhang: AAU -> CSU (Master Stu.)
  • Peng Wang: AAU -> MUST (Master Stu.)
  • Jinhao Liu: HIT -> HIT (PhD Stu.)
  • Dengyun Peng: HIT (Weihai) -> HIT (Master Stu.)
  • Yiyan Ji: HIT -> NJU (PhD Stu.)
  • Yizhuo Li: HIT -> SJTU (PhD Stu.)
  • Chenyuan Zhang: HIT -> HIT (Shenzhen, PhD Stu.)
  • Qionglin Qiu: CSU -> HIT (Shenzhen, PhD Stu.)

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