🎓 About Me
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. I received my B.Eng. degree with First Class Honours in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. During my undergraduate studies, I also completed an exchange program at Nanyang Technological University.
My research focuses on embodied AI and robotics, particularly at the intersection of large language models, robotic learning, and embodied intelligence. I am especially interested in continual learning and memory systems for robotic and vision-language agents. My recent work spans vision-language-action models, world models, agentic AI, and memory-augmented systems.
🔥 News
- 2026.06: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ECCV 2026.
- 2026.05: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to ICML 2026.
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 Decided to join the Computer Science PhD program at UT Austin.
- 2025.12: 🏆🏆 Awarded the AY2024–2025 Academic Performance Scholarship, Class A (Top 1% by GPA).
- 2025.04: 🎉🎉 One first-author paper was accepted to IROS 2025.
- 2025.01: 🎉🎉 One paper was accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025.
- 2024.12: 🏆🏆 Awarded the AY2023–2024 Academic Performance Scholarship, Class A (Top 1% by GPA).
📝 Selected Publications
Mingcong Lei, Honghao Cai, Zezhou Cui, Liangchen Tan, Junkun Hong, Gehan Hu, Shuangyu Zhu, Yimou Wu, Shaohan Jiang, Ge Wang, Yuyuan Yang, Junyuan Tan, Zhenglin Wan, Zhen Li, Shuguang Cui, Yiming Zhao, Yatong Han
Weihao Tan, Changjiu Jiang, Yu Duan, Mingcong Lei, Li JiaGeng, Yitian Hong, Xinrun Wang, Bo An
CLEA: Closed-Loop Embodied Agent for Enhancing Task Execution in Dynamic Environments
Mingcong Lei, Ge Wang, Yiming Zhao, Zhixin Mai, Qing Zhao, Yao Guo, Zhen Li, Shuguang Cui, Yatong Han, Jinke Ren
STMA: A Spatio-Temporal Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Embodied Task Planning
Mingcong Lei, Yiming Zhao, Ge Wang, Zhixin Mai, Shuguang Cui, Yatong Han, Jinke Ren
UCFE: A User-Centric Financial Expertise Benchmark for Large Language Models
Yuzhe Yang, Yifei Zhang, Yan Hu, Yilin Guo, Ruoli Gan, Yueru He, Mingcong Lei, Xiao Zhang, Haining Wang, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang, Honghai Yu, Benyou Wang
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024-2025 Academic Performance Scholarship: Class A (Year GPA top 1%)
- 2023-2024 Academic Performance Scholarship: Class A (Year GPA top 1%)
- 2024 MCM/ICM Meritorious Winner
- 2022-2025 Yearly Dean List Award (Outstanding Academic Performance, three consecutive years)
📖 Educations
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University of Texas at Austin 2026.08 - Present Major: Computer Science Ph.D. in Computer Science |
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Nanyang Technological University (Exchange) 2024.09 - 2024.12 Major: Computer Science |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 2022.09 - 2026.06 B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering with First Class Honours GPA: 3.8/4.0 (top 5%) |
👔 Services
- Reviewer of IROS/ICML/ICLR/AAAI/EMNLP/CoRL