Mingfei Sun

Lecturer in Computer Science
Room number: Kilburn G6
Email: mingfei.sun@manchester.ac.uk
Website: https://mingfeisun.github.io/

Biography

Education

• 2020, PhD in Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
• 2015, B.S. in Electronic Engineering & Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

• 2022.11 - Present, Lecturer, University of Manchester
• 2020.08 - 2022.10, Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• 2020.05 - 2022.04, Research associate, University of Oxford
• 2019.02 - 2019.11, Research intern, Tencent AI Lab
• 2017.09 - 2018.01, Research intern, NEC Central Research Labs
• 2014.06 - 2015.06, Research intern, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Books

Machine learning

• Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
• Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
• Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming
• Markov Chain and Mixing Times
• Numerical Optimization
• Matrix Analysis

Self-management

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Good to Great

Language study

• Elements of style