钱忱 · Chen Qian

Associate Professor
School of Artificial Intelligence
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

qianc62.github.io

Room 330, SAI Building, SJTU, Xuhui, Shanghai

Bio

My name is Chen Qian, and I am currently a tenure-track associate professor and PhD advisor the 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.

Projects

BMTrain

Multi-Agent Research eBook

A comprehensive outline of large language model-based multi-agent research.

CPM

ChatDev

ChatDev: Communicative Agents for Software Development (ACL-2024)

ModelCenter

Co-Learning

Experiential Co-Learning of Software-Developing Agents (ACL-2024)

EVA

MacNet

Scaling Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Collaboration (ICLR-2025)

SegGPT

iAgents

Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Task under Information Asymmetry (NeurIPS-2024)

VL-BERT

IoA

Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence (ICLR-2025)

Swin Transformer

AgentVerse

AgentVerse: Facilitating Multi-Agent Collaboration and Exploring Emergent Behaviors (ICLR-2024)

GCNet

Optima

Optima: Optimizing Effectiveness and Efficiency for LLM-Based Multi-Agent System (arXiv)

DAN

Co-Evolving

Iterative Experience Refinement of Software-Developing Agents (arXiv)

PIC

CTC

Multi-Agent Software Development through Cross-Team Collaboration (arXiv)

DHN

AutoForm

Beyond Natural Language: LLMs Leveraging Alternative Formats for Enhanced Reasoning and Communication (EMNLP-2024)

Selected Publications

Professional Services

2025
Area Chair: ACL-2025
Program Committee Member: KDD-2025, ICLR-2025, AAAI-2025, ICML-2025, SIGIR-2025
Journal Referee: TOSEM, SCIS
2024
Program Committee Member: SDM-2024, CVPR-2024, IJCAI-2024, NeurIPS-2024
Journal Referee: CL
2023
Program Committee Member: ACL-2023, IJCAI-2023, KDD-2023, EMNLP-2023
2022
Program Committee Member: ACL-2022, AAAI-2022, AACL-2022, EMNLP-2022, IJCAI-2022
2021
Program Committee Member: ACL-2021, EMNLP-2021, NAACL-2021, AAAI-2021, IJCAI-2021
2020
Program Committee Member: ACL-2020, EMNLP-2020, IJCAI-2020, AACL-2020, ICSOC-2020, SIGIR-2020
Journal Referee: TSE, TMIS
2019
Journal Referee: ESWA

Invited Talks

Teaching

SPEAKER

Natural Language Processing

Graduate Students
Spring Semester 2025
Tsinghua University
SPEAKER

Introduction to Large Language Models

Graduate Students
Fall Semester 2024
Online and Open

Join Us

We invite passionate individuals to join us in advancing cutting-edge research in Natural Language Processing, Foundation Models, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 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 2 openings for PhD students and 2 openings for Master's students this year). 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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