Rex Chen

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

About

I am a PhD graduate from the Societal Computing program of the Software & Societal Systems Department (S3D) of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at CMU. My research interests lie at the intersection of reinforcement learning, human-computer interaction, and computational game theory, with a focus on applications to socially impactful domains such as transportation and digital privacy. My work aims to evaluate the impact of real-world uncertainty and user behaviour on AI algorithms designed for these domains, with the goal of moving them from sanitised simulations into actionable deployments.

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For my PhD, my advisors were Fei Fang and Norman Sadeh.
My thesis, Rethinking the Design of Human-Centric AI Systems for Deployment in Transportation, is available here. You can also read a bonus chapter here.

For my BSc, I was advised at the University of British Columbia by Kevin Leyton-Brown and his PhD students, Chris Cameron and Jason Hartford.

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CV

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Links to my work are available in my CV; where possible, I try to publish in open-access venues. Please also feel free to email me using the link above for copies of my published work.

Current CV (full version) Current CV (short version)

Last updated: August 1, 2025

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