Prior to NYU, Chen was a research scientist at the Computer Vision Group at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where he worked on visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) and deep learning for autonomous driving and robotics, and invented several patented algorithms.
Chen Feng is currently leading a multidisciplinary research group named AI4CE (pronounced as A-I-force), which stands for Automation and Intelligence for Civil Engineering, and aims to advance robot vision and machine learning through multidisciplinary use-inspired research that originates from civil/mechanical engineering domains.