Faculty

Mingfei Sun

Lab Director, Assistant Professor - Google Scholar
Research: large-scale reinforcement learning, optimization, and dependable agent systems.
Personal website: mingfeisun.github.io

Doctoral Researchers

Adrian Mircea Nenu

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: policy gradients, reinforcement learning theory, and algorithmic improvements.
Personal Website: nenuadrian.com

Brendan Bennett

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Reinforcement learning for LLMs.
Personal website: brendanbennett.github.io

Hossein Abdi

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Second-Order Optimization, Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning, Control Theory, Robotics
Personal website: hossein-abdi.github.io

Satya Prakash Dash

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Convex and Non-Convex Analysis, Natural Gradient Descent, Policy Optimization, Transformers learning theory
Personal Website: sprakashdash.github.io

Maytus Piriyajitakonkij

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Cognitively-inspired AI, Machine Theory of Mind, Emergent Communication.
Personal Website: maytusp.com

Yihe Zhou

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Policy Gradients, Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, LLM post-training.

Yingxiao Huo

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Policy Gradients, Optimization, Second-Order Optimization.
Personal Website: huoyingxiao.github.io

Beining Zhang

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Policy Gradients, Decentralized Optimization.
Personal website: zbn111.github.io

Victor Yeom Song

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Diffusion Generative Models, Policy Gradients.
Personal website: vyeoms.github.io/

Jacob Mitchell Cummins

PhD Researcher - Google Scholar
Research: Masked Auto Encoders, 3D Model Feature Extraction
Personal website: jacobcummins.github.io/

MSc Researchers

Daniel Shi

MSc Thesis Student
Project: Roguelike games using deep reinforcement learning.

Collaborators

We actively collaborate with academic and industry partners across reinforcement learning, robotics, and multi-agent systems.