Nuo Chen

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University
College Station, USA

About me

I am currently a first-year PhD student at the 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 model and 3D vision language model, 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. of 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 start my PhD journey under the supervision of by 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 have subitted my master thesis and graduated from New York University.
09/2023:	I start my master 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]