Research Assistant, MixLab (Prof. Zhiting Hu), UCSD
Undergraduate Researcher, Jennifer J. Sun Lab, Cornell University
Undergraduate Researcher, Language Acquisition & Sound Recognition Lab (Prof. Sarah Creel), UCSD
I am a senior undergraduate at UC San Diego (B.S. '26) double-majoring in Mathematics–Computer Science and Cognitive Science (Machine Learning). My research interests include world models, embodied AI, large vision/language models, and speech recognition.
I work with Prof. Zhiting Hu in MixLab on World Model Evaluation and WM-ABench, with Prof. Jennifer J. Sun on programmatic verification for text-to-image models, and with Prof. Sarah Creel on bias and robustness in speech recognition.
I am actively seeking PhD positions in CS/Cognitive Science/Psychology for Fall 2026 cycle!
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University of California, San DiegoB.S. in Mathematics–Computer Science and Cognitive Science (Machine Learning)Sept. 2022 – Jun. 2026 (expected)
Honors & Awards
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UCSD Triton Research & Experiential Learning Scholarship (TRELS), Spring 20242024
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UCSD Provost Honors (2022–2024)2024
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IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)2024
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Selected Publications (view all )
PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation
PAN Team Institute of Foundation Models: Jiannan Xiang, Yi Gu, Zihan Liu, Zeyu Feng, Qiyue Gao, Yiyan Hu, Benhao Huang, Guangyi Liu, Yichi Yang, Kun Zhou, Davit Abrahamyan, Arif Ahmad, Ganesh Bannur, Junrong Chen, Kimi Chen, Mingkai Deng, Ruobing Han, Xinqi Huang, Haoqiang Kang, Zheqi Li, Enze Ma, Hector Ren, Yashowardhan Shinde, Rohan Shingre, Ramsundar Tanikella, Kaiming Tao, Dequan Yang, Xinle Yu, Cong Zeng, Binglin Zhou, Zhengzhong Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation
PAN Team Institute of Foundation Models: Jiannan Xiang, Yi Gu, Zihan Liu, Zeyu Feng, Qiyue Gao, Yiyan Hu, Benhao Huang, Guangyi Liu, Yichi Yang, Kun Zhou, Davit Abrahamyan, Arif Ahmad, Ganesh Bannur, Junrong Chen, Kimi Chen, Mingkai Deng, Ruobing Han, Xinqi Huang, Haoqiang Kang, Zheqi Li, Enze Ma, Hector Ren, Yashowardhan Shinde, Rohan Shingre, Ramsundar Tanikella, Kaiming Tao, Dequan Yang, Xinle Yu, Cong Zeng, Binglin Zhou, Zhengzhong Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing
Whisper automatic speech recognition and humans are similarly sensitive to accents, but use sentence context differently
Junrong Chen, Jan Kwong, Sarah Paull, Sarah Creel
Whisper automatic speech recognition and humans are similarly sensitive to accents, but use sentence context differently
Junrong Chen, Jan Kwong, Sarah Paull, Sarah Creel
Do Vision-Language Models Have an Internal World Model? Towards an Atomic Evaluation
Qiyue Gao*, Xinyu Pi*, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang, Xinqi Huang, Xinyu Fang, Lu Sun, Gautham Kishore, Bo Ai, Stone Tao, Mengyang Liu, Jiaxi Yang, Chao-Jung Lai, Chuanyang Jin, Jiannan Xiang, Benhao Huang, David Danks, Hao Su, Tianmin Shu, Ziqiao Ma, Lianhui Qin, Zhiting Hu (* equal contribution)
Do Vision-Language Models Have an Internal World Model? Towards an Atomic Evaluation
Qiyue Gao*, Xinyu Pi*, Kevin Liu, Junrong Chen, Ruolan Yang, Xinqi Huang, Xinyu Fang, Lu Sun, Gautham Kishore, Bo Ai, Stone Tao, Mengyang Liu, Jiaxi Yang, Chao-Jung Lai, Chuanyang Jin, Jiannan Xiang, Benhao Huang, David Danks, Hao Su, Tianmin Shu, Ziqiao Ma, Lianhui Qin, Zhiting Hu (* equal contribution)
Whispers of knowledge: ASR vs human performance in child transcription
Sarah Creel, Junrong Chen, Caroline Hall-Sherr, Carly Villongco, Sadrac Santacruzlbarra, Kaitlyn Chou
Whispers of knowledge: ASR vs human performance in child transcription
Sarah Creel, Junrong Chen, Caroline Hall-Sherr, Carly Villongco, Sadrac Santacruzlbarra, Kaitlyn Chou
Accented sentence and word recognition: Humans versus Whisper automatic speech recognition
Junrong Chen, Jan Kwong, Sarah Creel
Accented sentence and word recognition: Humans versus Whisper automatic speech recognition
Junrong Chen, Jan Kwong, Sarah Creel