Mingyang Deng

Mingyang Deng

Hello! I'm Mingyang Deng, a PhD student at MIT, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. Kaiming He. My research aims to understand and advance the foundations of generative models, with a focus on developing direct, end-to-end generative frameworks such as Drifting Models.

I earned my undergraduate degree from MIT, double majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science, where I collaborated with Prof. Tommi Jaakkola, Prof. Virginia Vassilevska Williams, and Prof. Yufei Zhao.

I have interned at Google DeepMind, Meta FAIR, and Pika.

You can contact me at dengm at mit dot edu and view my resume here.

Selected Awards

  • Distinguished Donor Fellowship, MIT EECS (Spring 2026)
  • Gold medal (1st place) @ 45th Annual ICPC World Finals
  • Putnam Fellow @ 83rd William Lowell Putnam Competition
  • Gold medal (1st place) @ 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics
  • Gold medal @ 60th International Mathematical Olympiad

Publications

Invited Talks

  • Google DeepMind, Nano Banana Team (Mar 2025)
  • Cohere Labs, Guest Speaker Session (Mar 2025)
  • Delta Institute Podcast (Mar 2025)
  • Vincent Sitzmann's Group Meeting, MIT (Feb 2025)
  • Starkly Speaking Seminar (Feb 2025)
  • Tsinghua University, ML Foundations Reading Group (2025)