Lingheng Meng

PhD Candidate

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo

Introduction

Lingheng is doing his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Dana Kulić in Adaptive System Laboratory at the University of Waterloo . His PhD research is focused on Intrinsic Motivation (also called Curiosity-based Learning) on distributed learning system to achieve active life-long developmental learning. He is also collaborating with Living Architecture System Group in Toronto , working on applying Intrinsic Motivation to engaging interactive living architecture.

Lingheng completed his B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology and M.Eng. in Computer Application Technology at the China University of Mining and Technology, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. His previous research during master is on Autoencoders.

Research Interests:

  • Human Robot Interaction

  • Intrinsic Motivation: Curiosity-based Learning

  • Machine Learning

  • Reinforcement Learning

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Personal Motto:

One prospers in worries and hardships, and perishes in ease and comfort.

(生于忧患,死于安乐)