Mingyu Ding

Mingyu Ding is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research bridges robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision, focusing on building agents that interact effectively with physical environments.

• PhD in Robotics, University of Hong Kong (2022), advised by Ping Luo
• Postdoctoral Fellow, BAIR@UC Berkeley (with Masayoshi Tomizuka)
• Visiting Scholar, CSAIL@MIT (with Joshua Tenenbaum)
• B.S. in Computer Science, Renmin University of China (under Zhiwu Lu)

His work emphasizes robot learning through physical simulation, multimodal foundation models, and self-supervised methods. Key contributions include Embodied Concept Learner (ECL) and Sparse Diffusion Policy frameworks.

Recent publications highlight trends in 3D vision, diffusion-based planning, and language-driven robotic behavior synthesis. Awards include ICRA Best Paper (2024), ME Rising Star (2023), and CVPR Doctoral Consortium (2023).

• Session Chair for ICRA 2025
• Associate Editor for IROS 2025
• Guest Editor for Robotics Special Issue: Embodied Intelligence