Mingyu Ding

Mingyu Ding - 丁明宇

Incoming Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill

myding at berkeley dot edu     [Google Scholar]

Hi there! I am an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka, a distinguished member of National Academy of Engineering, and was a visiting scholar at MIT working with Prof.Joshua Tenenbaum. Before that, I received my PhD from the University of Hong Kong advised by Prof. Ping Luo, and my B.S. from Renmin University of China under the supervision of Prof. Zhiwu Lu.

My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision. I am actively seeking self-motivated students for PhD (Spring/Fall 2025) and intern positions. If you’re interested, please fill out this form before email me, thanks!

Research Highlights

My long-term research goal is to build embodied agents that can reason about and interact effectively with the physical world.

CoRL22: Embodied Concept Learner

NeurIPS23 Dataset: Physion++

NeurIPS23: EmbodiedGPT

ICML23: AdaptDiffuser

ICRA24: RT-X

ICLR24: Tree-Planner

Preprint: PhyGrasp

RSS24: Human-oriented Manipulation

CoRL24: Sparse Diffusion Policy

Preprint: Manipulation via Scene Flow

Preprint: Long-Horizon Tasks with LLM

CVPR23: EC for Embodied Control

NeurIPS22: ComPhy Benchmark

NeurIPS21: Reasoning with DiffPhysics

CVPR24: SkillDiffuser

Preprint: RoboScript

ICML24: RoboCodeX

Preprint: LanguageMPC

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