Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
My research interests include embodied AI, reinforcement learning, robotic control, and autonomous driving. My goal is to develop efficient learning algorithms that endow autonomous systems to solve complex tasks in the real world.
Email: leiyh@connect.hku.hk
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Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation
Mengkang Hu, Tianxing Chen, Yude Zou, Yuheng Lei, Ming Li, Qiguang Chen, Hongyuan Zhang, Wenqi Shao, Ping Luo
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025, Findings
Paper / Code / Project Page
Zeroth-Order Actor-Critic: An Evolutionary Framework for Sequential Decision Problems
Yuheng Lei, Yao Lyu, Guojian Zhan, Tao Zhang, Jiangtao Li, Jianyu Chen, Shengbo Eben Li, Sifa Zheng
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2025, JCR Q1 (5-yr IF: 15.5)
Paper / Code (This journal paper is an extension of the CDC '22 paper)
FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality
Keyu Chen, Yuheng Lei, Hao Cheng, Haoran Wu, Wenchao Sun, Sifa Zheng
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024, Oral (4.3%)
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Education Experience
The University of Hong Kong
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab), 2023-Present
Advisor: Prof. Ping Luo, Prof. Wenping Wang and Prof. Xiaoou Tang
Tsinghua University
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Intelligent Driving Laboratory (iDLab), 2020-2023
Advisor: Prof. Sifa Zheng and Prof. Shengbo Eben Li
B.Eng. in Vehicle Engineering, 2016-2020
B.Mgmt. in Business Administration (Second Major), 2017-2020
Honors & Awards
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, 2023-2027
HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship (HKU-PS), The University of Hong Kong, 2023-2027
Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, The University of Hong Kong, 2023
Outstanding Master Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2023
Postgraduate Scholarship of Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2022
Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2020
Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University, 2020
Tsinghua-Ferrari Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2018
Scholarship of Scientific and Technological Innovation Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2018
“Dec 9th” Scholarship of Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University, 2017
First Prize for 34th National Physics Competition for University Students, Beijing Physics Society, 2017
