Dong Chen

Dong Chen

Assistant Professor @ MSU

Dr. Dong Chen

Assistant Professor
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University
Phone: 662-325-8279
Email: dc2528 at msstate dot edu

About me

Hello! I am a tenure-track assistant professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU) starting in Fall 2024. Before coming to MSU, I served as a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Virginia (UVA), affiliated with both the Environmental Institute and Link Lab mentored by Drs. Arsalan Heydarian and Brad Campbell. I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University in 2023, guided by Dr. Zhaojian Li. Before that, I obtained my B.Eng. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in June 2017.

Research Interests: Reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, intelligent transportation systems, computer vision, robotics, control, smart agriculture, etc.

Research Projects

My primary research interests lie in the intersection of control, multi-agent systems, and deep learning, with applications to autonomous vehicles, robotics, and smart agriculture. Some of my ongoing projects are soft robotics for fruit harvesting and sorting, multi-robot collaborations, and controlled environment agriculture.

News

  • 10/2024: Starting as a tenure-track assistant professor at Mississippi State University
  • 07/2024: I co-taught a CPD course on “Large Language Models and Foundation Models in Agriculture: Bridging Theory and Practice” in the 2024 ASABE Annual International Meeting
  • New Paper! 06/2024. Our papers on soft robot control have been accepted by IEEE TMECH and RAL
  • New Paper! 03/2024. “SoybeanNet for soybean pod counting” has been accepted by COMPAG [Paper] [Dataset] [Codes]
  • New Paper! 02/2024. “MARL for CACC” has been accepted by IEEE TIV [Paper] [Codes]
  • New Paper! 12/2023. “Diffusion models for agriculture image generation” has been accepted by COMPAG [Paper] [Codes]
  • New Paper! 11/2023. “Label-efficient Learning in Agriculture” has been accepted by COMPAG [Paper] [Codes]
  • New Paper! 11/2023. “Event-trigger MPC” has been accepted by T-IV [Paper] [Codes]
  • Invited Talk! 09/2023. I gave an invited talk on “Communication-Efficient Decentralized MARL for CACC” at 2023 IEEE ITSC.
  • Award! 08/2023. I am glad to receive the Presentation Excellence Award at the ASABE’s 2023 Annual International Meeting
  • New! 07/2023. I have successfully defended the Ph.D. dissertation. Now, officially Dr. Chen!
  • Award! 07/2023. Our paper on “Diffusion Model For Weed Recognition Enhancement” won the ITSC Technical Community Meeting Paper Awards.
  • New Paper! 05/2023. Our paper on “Deep MARL for highway on-ramp merging in mixed traffic” has been accepted by T-ITS [Paper] [Codes]