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About me

Hello! I currently serve 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, guided by Dr. Zhaojian Li.

Research Interests

• Cyber-physical systems (CPS)
• Reinforcement Learning
• Multi-agent Systems
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Robotics
• Smart Agriculture

News

• 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]