Assistant Professor

Mengye Ren is an assistant professor of computer science and data science at New York University (NYU). He runs the Agentic Learning AI Lab. Before joining NYU, he was a visiting faculty researcher at Google Brain Toronto working with Prof. Geoffrey Hinton. From 2017 to 2021, he was a senior research scientist at Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) and Waabi, working on self-driving vehicles. He received PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Richard Zemel and Prof. Raquel Urtasun. His research focuses on making machine learning more natural and human-like, in order for AIs to continually learn, adapt, and reason in naturalistic environments.