Mingyu Ding

Mingyu Ding - 丁明宇

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill

md at cs dot unc dot edu     [Google Scholar]

Hi there! I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), leading the Intelligent Dexterous Embodied AI Lab at UNC (IDEAL@UNC). I was a postdoc at BAIR@UC Berkeley and was a visiting PhD at CSAIL@MIT. I received my doctorate from the University of Hong Kong and finished my undergraduate degrees at Renmin University of China.

Research Highlights [Publication List]

My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision. My long-term research goal is to build intelligent robots capable of interacting with the physical world as naturally and dexterously as humans.

Current as Touch

DexVerse

RSS26: OHRA

TMech26: DexH2R

CoorDex

ICRA25: Palletization

ICRA25: Manipulation via Scene Flow

IROS25: PhyGrasp

ICRA24: RT-X

IROS25: ReBot

NeurIPS23: EmbodiedGPT

CVPR25: DexHandDiff

CoRL24: Sparse Diffusion Policy

CVPR23: EC for Embodied Control

Preprint: Long-Horizon Tasks with LLM

Preprint: REMAC

CoRL22: Embodied Concept Learner

RSS24: Human-oriented Manipulation

NeurIPS23 Dataset: Physion++

NeurIPS22: ComPhy Benchmark

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