Mingchen Zhuge

📢 I am on the 2025-2026 academic/industry job market!

I am a final-year PhD Candidate at the KAUST AI Initiative. I am fortunate to have Jürgen Schmidhuber as my advisor.

My current research interests and skills include:

• Multimodal: Vision-Language Pre-training; Currently Prefer Video-based LLMs.
• LLMs: Post-Training.
• Agents: LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems, Code Generation.
• Meta Learning: Recursive Self-Improvement.
• AI Judges: Agent-as-a-Judge, LLM-as-a-Judge.

I contribute to open-source communities like MetaGPT, GPTSwarm and OpenDevin.

Before joining KAUST, I've worked as an engineer, researcher (or intern) at NSFocus, Alibaba Group, IIAI (G42), SUSTech VIP Lab, and Microsoft.

I was born in a beautiful city Guilin, China, and I am a descendant of Zhuge Liang.