
Boyuan Chen
Associate Director for High Performance Computing (HPC), Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Department: MEMS, ECE, CS
Home School: Pratt School of Engineering
Email Address: boyuan.chen@duke.edu
Phone Number: 919-684-3410
Physical Address:
North Building, Rm 135
Research Overview:
My research advances embodied intelligence by understanding and designing intelligent systems that learn, act, reason, and adapt through perception and interaction. My research involves multiple areas including Robotics. Artificial Intelligence, Dynamical Systems, and Human-AI Teaming.
Publications:
- Geopolymer Adhesives for DUV LED Packaging: Synthesis and Bonding Mechanism
- MetaCipher: A General and Extensible Reinforcement Learning Framework for Obfuscation-Based Jailbreak Attacks on Black-Box LLMs
- CREW-WILDFIRE: Benchmarking Agentic Multi-Agent Collaborations at Scale
- SymMatika: Structure-Aware Symbolic Discovery
- Physical artificial intelligence in nursing: Robotics
- Pref-GUIDE: Continual Policy Learning from Real-Time Human Feedback via Preference-Based Learning
- Sym2Real: Symbolic Dynamics with Residual Learning for Data-Efficient Adaptive Control
- Scensory: Automated Real-Time Fungal Identification and Spatial Mapping
- How Well do Diffusion Policies Learn Kinematic Constraint Manifolds?
- Scientific judgment drifts over time in AI ideation
- TumorMap: A Laser-based Surgical Platform for 3D Tumor Mapping and Fully-Automated Tumor Resection
- Time-Aware Policy Learning for Adaptive and Punctual Robot Control
