Scholar
Mingfei Sun
Google Scholar ID: 2Uzgp5kAAAAJ
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Manchester
Reinforcement Learning
Generative Models
Human-Robot Interaction
Follow
Homepage
↗
Google Scholar
↗
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,920
H-index
15
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Contact
GitHub
Open ↗
LinkedIn
Open ↗
Publications
14 items
On the Generalization Behavior of Deep Residual Networks From a Dynamical System Perspective
2026
Cited
0
CAAL: Confidence-Aware Active Learning for Heteroscedastic Atmospheric Regression
2026
Cited
0
Rank-1 Approximation of Inverse Fisher for Natural Policy Gradients in Deep Reinforcement Learning
2026
Cited
0
Gradient Regularized Natural Gradients
2026
Cited
0
Softly Constrained Denoisers for Diffusion Models
2025
Cited
0
Bayesian Natural Gradient Fine-Tuning of CLIP Models via Kalman Filtering
2025
Cited
0
Learning what to say and how precisely: Efficient Communication via Differentiable Discrete Communication Learning
2025
Cited
0
Re-evaluating LLM-based Heuristic Search: A Case Study on the 3D Packing Problem
2025
Cited
0
Load more
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Awarded Open Source AI Fellowship by the Alan Turing Institute (2025)
Received UKRI AI Research Resource (AIRR) Early Access Project award (2025)
Awarded Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA) (2025)
Secured EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA) Studentship as PI (2025)
Received School of Engineering Pump Priming, Theme Development and Dissemination fund (2024)
Quality Champion Award for ECAI Reviewer (2023)
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Papers accepted at top-tier venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, KDD, AAMAS, IUI, CoLLAs, TMLR, ICDM, and AAAI Fall Symposium Series
Research Experience
Joined the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in December 2022
Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator (Co-I) on multiple research projects, including:
- Reinforcement Learning for Fully Automated System Calibration (TICM Collaborative R&D Programme)
- Generative Modeling for Engineering Design (sponsored by Cummins Turbo Technologies Ltd, with Dr. Wei Pan and Dr. Alex Skillen)
- AI Hub in Generative Models (with Professor David Barber)
- UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems (with Dr. Mauricio Alvarez)
Co-authors
19 total
Shimon Whiteson
Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford / Senior Staff Research Scientist, Waymo
Katja Hofmann
Microsoft Research
Xiaojuan Ma
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sam Devlin
Meta
Co-author 5
Tarun Gupta
University of Oxford, Google Waymo Research
Ida Momennejad
Microsoft Research
Philip Torr
Professor, University of Oxford
×
Welcome back
Sign in to Agora
Welcome back! Please sign in to continue.
Email address
Password
Forgot password?
Continue
Do not have an account?
Sign up