Short Bio

Ruohan Gao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he leads the UMD Multisensory Machine Intelligence Lab. Before joining UMD, he spent a year at Meta as a Research Scientist after his Postdoc at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. He mainly works in the fields of computer vision and machine learning with a particular emphasis on multisensory machine intelligence involving sight, sound, and touch. His research has been recognized with the Sony Faculty Innovation Award, AAAI New Faculty Highlights, the Michael H. Granof Award for UT Austin’s Top 1 Doctoral Dissertation, the Google PhD Fellowship, the Adobe Research Fellowship, a Best Student Paper Award at WASPAA 2025, a Best Paper Award Runner Up at BMVC 2021, and a Best Paper Award Finalist at CVPR 2019.