Mengchen Dong is a social psychologist and behavioral scientist. She currently serves as a Research Scientist at the Center for Humans & Machines of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. She earned her PhD in psychology and currently focuses on AI ethics and governance across interpersonal, organizational, and societal contexts.

Her research promotes a contextualized and nuanced understanding of human-AI interactions, emphasizing the influence of power dynamics, personal circumstances, and sociocultural backgrounds.