People

Mingyu Ding

Mingyu Ding

Assistant Professor & Lab Director · Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill

Mingyu Ding leads IDEAL Lab, working at the intersection of robotics, embodied AI, and computer vision. Before joining UNC, he was a postdoctoral researcher at BAIR, UC Berkeley; he received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong, was a visiting Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, and completed his undergraduate studies at Renmin University of China.

Homepage · Google Scholar · md@cs.unc.edu

Ph.D. Students

Chenyang Ma

Chenyang Ma

Ph.D. Student · 2023–

Co-advised with Daniel Szafir

Yu Fang

Yu Fang

Ph.D. Student · 2023–

Co-advised with Daniel Szafir

Zhenyu Wei

Zhenyu Wei

Ph.D. Student · 2025–

Sikai Li

Sikai Li

Ph.D. Student · 2025–

Yunchao Yao

Yunchao Yao

Ph.D. Student · 2025–

Jiaqi Liu

Jiaqi Liu

Ph.D. Student · 2025–

Co-advised with Huaxiu Yao

Tianqi Zhang

Tianqi Zhang

Ph.D. Student · 2026–

Zixian Liu

Zixian Liu

Ph.D. Student · 2026–

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