Mingfei Sun
Scholar

Mingfei Sun

Google Scholar ID: 2Uzgp5kAAAAJ
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Manchester
Reinforcement LearningGenerative ModelsHuman-Robot Interaction
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,920
 
H-index
15
 
i10-index
19
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
19
list available
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)