Biography

Mingfeng Yuan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Toronto Robotics and AI Laboratory (TRAIL), University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Steven Waslander. He received his Ph.D. in Space Engineering from York University in 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Jinjun Shan. His doctoral research focused on intelligent decision-making for autonomous driving in dynamic and interactive environments. His current research centers on embodied intelligence, with a strong focus on enabling unmanned systems (UGVs and UAVs) to navigate open-world environments. His work involves building spatial-temporal memory systems to support unmanned systems’ lifelong operation, developing task reasoning and planning frameworks based on agentic workflows, and advancing vision-language navigation models. For more information, please visit his personal website.