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We are pleased to announce that Mingfei Sun has been appointed as a new Scholar within the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

Following the 2026 call for ELLIS Fellows and Scholars, the announced this month that Mingfei has been appointed as an ELLIS Scholar.

is a pan-European AI network of excellence which aims to secure lasting international leadership of AI made in Europe by connecting top researchers in this field and by creating a multi-centric AI research laboratory. The annual appointment of ELLIS scholars recognises promising researchers who show a clear trajectory towards becoming senior leaders in AI and machine learning research.

Mingfei, recently promoted to Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, has been a key member of the ELLIS Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Faculty since the unit was founded, working closely with colleagues from across The University of Â鶹Æƽâ°æ and with ELLIS sites across Europe. Mingfei has particularly strong connections with the ELLIS Institute in Finland and as well as a large number of published papers, he has been involved with organising events including the Helsinki summer school.

In a recent example of this collaboration, Mingfei has co-authored a paper on ‘Adam’: an optimization algorithm used to train deep neural networks, with international colleagues, including ELLIS Institute Finland. This paper has been accepted for the NeurIPS conference and will be presented there later this year.

We look forward to Mingfei continuing to play an important role in Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s contribution to the ELLIS Society in the coming years.