Nuo Chen

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University
College Station, USA

About me

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University (TAMU), advised by Prof. Zhiwen Fan.

Prior to this, I was a research assistant at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN), advised by Prof. Catherine Qi Zhao.

I earned my Master's degree in Computer Engineering from New York University (NYU). At NYU, I had the honor of joining the AI4CE Lab as a research intern, exploring autonomous vehicle perception, working with Yiming Li, and advised by Prof. Chen Feng.

Before that, I earned my bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Chongqing University (CQU), where I was fortunate to conduct research on multispectral pedestrian detection under the guidance of Prof. Jin Xie.

My research centers on 3D generative models and 3D vision-language models, aiming to build multimodal 3D models that bridge vision, language, and the physical world.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sept. 2025 - now

Texas A&M University, USA
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Sept. 2022 -- June 2024

New York University, USA
B.Eng. in Software Engineering
Sept. 2018 -- July 2022

Chongqing University, China

News

06/2026:	Our paper A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models has been accepted by ECCV 2026.
06/2026:	Our paper EndoMD-SLAM: Endoscopic Gaussian Splatting SLAM under Optical Degradation with Memory and Static-Transient Decomposition has been accepted by IROS 2026.
05/2026:	I was honored to be recognized as a Gold Reviewer for ICML 2026.
09/2025:	I started my Ph.D. journey under the supervision of Prof. Zhiwen Fan at Texas A&M University.
02/2025:	Our paper Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization has been accepted by CVPR 2025.
05/2024:	I submitted my master's thesis and graduated from New York University.
09/2023:	I started my master's thesis research under the supervision of Prof. Chen Feng in the AI4CE Lab.
07/2023:	The paper expanded from my undergraduate thesis has been accepted by ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2023.

Publications

A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models
Nuo Chen^*, Lulin Liu^*, Zihao Li, Ziyao Zeng, Zihao Zhu, Wenyan Cong, Junyuan Hong, Yunhao Yang, Zhengzhong Tu, Yan Wang, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone, Zhangyang Wang, Yang Zhou, Zhiwen Fan
ECCV 2026

EndoMD-SLAM: Endoscopic Gaussian Splatting SLAM under Optical Degradation with Memory and Static-Transient Decomposition
Nuo Chen^*, Kangqi Ni^*, Lulin Liu, Joga Ivatury, Ying Ding, Farshid Alambeigi, Tianlong Chen, Zhiwen Fan
IROS 2026

Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization
Nuo Chen, Ming Jiang, Qi Zhao^†
CVPR 2025 [Paper] [Code]

Attentive Alignment Network for Multispectral Pedestrian Detection
Nuo Chen, Jin Xie^†, Jing Nie , Jiale Cao, Zhuang Shao, Yanwei Pang
ACM MM 2023 (29.3% acceptance rate) [Paper]

Multiagent Multitraversal Multimodal Self-Driving: Open MARS Dataset
Yiming Li, Zhiheng Li, Nuo Chen, Moonjun Gong, Zonglin Lyu, Zehong Wang, Peili Jiang, Chen Feng^†
CVPR 2024 [Project] [Paper] [Code] [Hugging Face]

SSCBench: Monocular 3D Semantic Scene Completion Benchmark for Autonomous Driving
Yiming Li^*, Sihang Li^*, Xinhao Liu^*, Moonjun Gong^*, Kenan Li, Nuo Chen, Zijun Wang, Zhiheng Li, Tao Jiang, Fisher Yu, Yue Wang, Hang Zhao, Zhiding Yu, Chen Feng^†
IROS 2024 [Project] [Paper] [Code]

𝛼-OCC: Uncertainty-Aware Camera-based 3D Semantic Scene Completion
Sanbao Su, Nuo Chen, Felix Juefei-Xu, Chen Feng, Fei Miao
TMLR 2026 [Paper]