Two papers accepted at ICML 2025 workshops; two papers accepted at CoLLAs 2025; two papers accepted at ICML 2025; one paper accepted at ICLR 2025; serving as an area chair for ICLR 2026, communications chair for NeurIPS 2025, area chair for COLM 2025, and associate program chair for CoLLAs 2025.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at New York University (NYU), leading the Agentic Learning AI Lab. Previously a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Brain Toronto (working with Prof. Geoffrey Hinton) and a Senior Research Scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) and Waabi, working on self-driving vehicles.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Richard Zemel and Prof. Raquel Urtasun (2017-2021)
Background
Research interests include machine learning, computer vision, representation learning, meta-learning, few-shot learning, brain & cognitively inspired learning, robot learning, and self-driving vehicles. He focuses on making machine learning more natural and human-like, enabling AIs to continually learn, adapt, and reason in naturalistic environments.
Miscellany
Contact: mengye@nyu.edu, +1 (212) 992-7547; Office: 60 5th Ave, Rm 508, New York, NY, 10011; Social Media: LinkedIn, Bsky, CV, GScholar, Lab Webpage