Introduction

I’m a researcher at UiO specializing in self-supervised learning and reinforcement learning. My work bridges theoretical advances in AI with practical applications.

Academic Journey

• PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2025) - University of Oslo, Norway
  Thesis: State Representations in Reinforcement Learning

• MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2020) - University of Groningen, Netherlands

• BSc in Artificial Intelligence (2017) - University of Groningen, Netherlands

Research Interests

• Self-supervised representation learning
• Deep reinforcement learning
• Computer vision and robotics
• LLM

Selected Publications

State Representation Learning Using an Unbalanced Atlas
ICLR 2024 - Novel paradigms for manifold-based self-supervised learning

Improving the Diversity of Bootstrapped DQN
IEEE Transactions on Games 2022 - Enhancements in Q-learning diversity

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Technical Skills

Programming: Python, C++, Java, R, MATLAB
Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, ROS
Specialized: Large Language Models, Computer Vision, Robotics
Languages: English, Chinese, Norwegian, Japanese

Contact

Email: mengli11235@hotmail.com
Location: Oslo, Norway