Mingchen Zhuge

Hi, I am Mingchen! I am a PhD candidate with a strong interest in multimodal agents and world models, including their training (especially post-training) and applications. I am fortunate to have Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber as my advisor. I have 20+ top-tier publications and over 4,000 citations (75% from first-author papers). My work includes early agentic explorations such as MetaGPT , GPTSwarm , OpenDevin (aka. OpenHands) , agent-as-a-judge , and HGM . My papers on multimodal agents were accepted as oral presentations at ICLR (<1.2%), ICML (<1.5%), received the Best Paper Award at the NeurIPS Ro-FoMo Workshop, and Outstanding Paper Nomitation at EMNLP 2025. I was nominated for WAIC Future Star Nomination and recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer of CVPR2023 (232 out of 7000+).

📣 I am seeking jobs, and if you are a team lead who is interested, please contact me at mingchen dot zhuge at kaust dot edu dot sa.