Hongji Chen 「陈鸿基」

I am an undergraduate student at Fudan University. I am also a research intern with OpenMOSS Team, jointly connected with Fudan NLP Lab and Shanghai Innovation Institute, advised by Prof. Xipeng Qiu.

I will start my Ph.D. study in Fall 2029 at the Shanghai Innovation Institute and Fudan University, advised by Prof. Xipeng Qiu. I received a Ph.D. offer from the Shanghai Innovation Institute in Summer 2026, and was the youngest SII Ph.D. offer recipient up to that time.

My research interests include multimodal reasoning and AI infrastructure. Recently, I have been working on UMM (Unified Multimodal Models), VGM (Video Generation Models), and WAM (World Action Model). Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaboration.

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Publications

AI Can Learn Scientific Taste teaser AI Can Learn Scientific Taste
Jingqi Tong, Mingzhe Li, Hangcheng Li, Yongzhuo Yang, Yurong Mou, Weijie Ma, Zhiheng Xi, Hongji Chen, Xiaoran Liu, Qinyuan Cheng, Ming Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Weifeng Ge, Qipeng Guo, Tianlei Ying, Tianxiang Sun, Yining Zheng, Xinchi Chen, Jun Zhao, Ning Ding, Xuanjing Huang, Yugang Jiang, Xipeng Qiu
arXiv, 2026
project page / arXiv / github / models & datasets / demo

We propose Reinforcement Learning from Community Feedback (RLCF), training Scientific Judge to model research taste from large-scale community signals and using it to improve Scientific Thinker for high-potential scientific ideation.

Selected Projects

Shanghai Innovation Institute Research Cockpit
Major participant, Shanghai Innovation Institute

Participated in building a full-process agentic research operating system for organized research. The system upgrades AI from stage-specific assistance to automated literature search, idea generation and evaluation, research-plan generation from goals, execution tracking, iterative verification, and lifecycle management. InspireSkill is a concrete outcome of this project, providing reusable skills and tool interfaces for agents to operate the Inspire compute platform through reproducible workflows.

Research Experiences

Shanghai Innovation Institute
Jul. 2026 - Present
Research Intern, advised by Prof. Xipeng Qiu
Fudan NLP Lab / OpenMOSS Team
Oct. 2025 - Present
Research Intern, advised by Prof. Xipeng Qiu