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钱忱 · Chen Qian
Associate Professor
School of Artificial Intelligence
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Bio
My name is Chen Qian, and I am currently a tenure-track associate professor and PhD advisor of School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the "Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program" at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, where I worked in the Natural Language Processing Lab—THUNLP under the supervision of Professors Maosong Sun and Zhiyuan Liu. Before my postdoctoral research, I worked as an algorithm engineer at Tencent, where I was selected for the "Tech Elite" Program. I earned my PhD from School of Software, Tsinghua University in June 2021, under the guidance of Professor Lijie Wen, and my bachelor's degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology in June 2016. During my doctoral studies, I engaged as a visiting scholar at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, mentored by Professors Tat-Seng Chua and Fuli Feng.
My research interests lie in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, with a particular focus on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. I have published some papers in top-tier AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR and AAAI, where I also actively contribute to the academic community by serving as an area chair or program committee member. Additionally, we are launching the Agentic AI Lab (AAIL) — dedicated to shaping human–agent collaboration and building toward an intelligent, symbiotic future. Stay tuned for more updates!
Projects
Selected Publications
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ChatDev: Communicative Agents for Software Development
Chen Qian, Wei Liu, Hongzhang Liu, Nuo Chen, Yufan Dang, Jiahao Li, Cheng Yang, Weize Chen, Yusheng Su, Xin Cong, Juyuan Xu, Dahai Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024. -
Experiential Co-Learning of Software-Developing Agents
Chen Qian*, Yufan Dang*, Jiahao Li, Wei Liu, Weize Chen, Cheng Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024. -
Scaling Large-Language-Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration
Chen Qian*, Zihao Xie*, Yifei Wang*, Wei Liu, Yufan Dang, Zhuoyun Du, Weize Chen, Cheng Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025. -
Multi-Agent Collaboration via Evolving Orchestration
Yufan Dang*, Chen Qian*, Xueheng Luo, Jingru Fan, Zihao Xie, Ruijie Shi, Weize Chen, Cheng Yang, Xiaoyin Che, Ye Tian, Xuantang Xiong, Lei Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. -
Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Task under Information Asymmetry
Wei Liu, Chenxi Wang, Yifei Wang, Zihao Xie, Rennai Qiu, Yufan Dang, Zhuoyun Du, Weize Chen, Cheng Yang, Chen Qian
In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024. -
Multi-Agent Collaboration via Cross-Team Orchestration
Zhuoyun Du*, Chen Qian*, Wei Liu, Zihao Xie, YiFei Wang, Rennai Qiu, Yufan Dang, Weize Chen, Cheng Yang, Ye Tian, Xuantang Xiong, Lei Han
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025. -
MAO: A Framework for Process Model Generation with Multi-Agent Orchestration
Leilei Lin, Yumeng Jin, Yingming Zhou, Wenlong Chen, Chen Qian
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2025. -
AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors in Agents
Weize Chen, Yusheng Su, Jingwei Zuo, Cheng Yang, Chenfei Yuan, Chen Qian, Chi-Min Chan, Yujia Qin, Yaxi Lu, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Jie Zhou
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. -
Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence
Weize Chen, Ziming You, Ran Li, Yitong Guan, Chen Qian, Chenyang Zhao, Cheng Yang, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025. -
Optima: Optimizing Effectiveness and Efficiency for LLM-Based Multi-Agent System
Weize Chen, Jiarui Yuan, Chen Qian, Cheng Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025. -
Beyond Natural Language: LLMs Leveraging Alternative Formats for Enhanced Reasoning and Communication
Weize Chen, Chenfei Yuan, Jiarui Yuan, Yusheng Su, Chen Qian, Cheng Yang, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024. -
AppCopilot: Toward General, Accurate, Long-Horizon, and Efficient Mobile Agent
Jingru Fan, Yufan Dang, Jingyao Wu, Huatao Li, Runde Yang, Xiyuan Yang, Yuheng Wang, Chen Qian
In arXiv:2509.02444, 2025.
Professional Services
Program Committee Member: ICML-2026, AAMAS-2026, NeurIPS-2026, KDD-2026, AAAI-2026, WWW-2026
Program Committee Member: KDD-2025 (Outstanding Reviewer), ICLR-2025, AAAI-2025, ICML-2025, SIGIR-2025
Journal Referee: TOSEM, SCIS
Journal Referee: TSE, TMIS
Invited Talks
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NUS-Google Workshop: Future of CS Education and Curriculum in the AI Era (NUS-Google Workshop) SPEAKERNovember 2025, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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The Thirteenth China National Conference on Social Media Processing (SMP-2025) FORUM CHAIRNovember 2025, Wuhan, Hubei
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China's Annual Academic Conference (LMG-2025) HOSTNovember 2025, Chengdu, Sichuan
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The International Conference on Machine Learning 2025 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (ICML-2025 Workshop on MAS) PANELISTJuly 2025, Vancouver, Canada
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The 24th China Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL-2025) SPEAKERAugust 2025, Jinan, Shandong
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The 7th BAAI Conference (BAAI-2025) SPEAKERJune 2025, Beijing
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The 14th Chinese Conference on Business Process Management (CBPM-2024) KEYNOTENovember 2024, Hefei, Anhui
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China's Annual Academic Conference (CIPS-LMG-2024) SPEAKERNovember 2024, Jiaxing, Zhejiang
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The 13th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC-2024) SPEAKERNovember 2024, Hangzhou, Zhejiang
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The 12th Social Media Processing Conference (SMP-2024) SPEAKEROctober 2024, Xinxiang, Henan
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The 23rd China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL-2024) SPEAKERAugust 2024, Taiyuan, Shanxi
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The 6th BAAI Conference (BAAI-2024) SPEAKERJune 2024, Beijing
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The 21st Young Scholars Symposium on NLP (YSSNLP-2024) SPEAKERPANELISTJune 2024, Kunming, Yunnan
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CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (CCF-ADL) SPEAKERMay 2024, Beijing
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2024 China Generative AI Conference (GenAICon-2024) SPEAKERApril 2024, Beijing
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ZGC Forum: Large Model Intelligent Application Conference SPEAKERJanuary 2024, Beijing
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Huawei Future Applications Forum SPEAKERDecember 2023, Xiamen, Fujian
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Qiyuan Lab "Four Seasons Green" Forum HOSTNovember 2023, Beijing
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The 11th Social Media Processing Conference (SMP-2023) SPEAKERNovember 2023, Hefei, Anhui
Teaching
Join Us
We invite passionate individuals to join us in advancing cutting-edge research in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Model, Autonomous Agent, Multi-Agent Collaboration and Collective Intelligence. Whether you are an Undergraduate, or aiming to pursue a Master's degree, PhD, Postdoctoral Research, or work as a Research Assistant or Engineer, we welcome you to be part of our journey (approximately 0 PhD and 0 Master’s openings for the Class of 2026; 1 PhD and 1 Master’s opening for the Class of 2027). Here, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to innovative projects in an inspiring, supportive, and collaborative environment that fosters creativity and professional growth.
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