Ruohan Gao

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. degree 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 by the AAAI New Faculty Highlights 2025, the Michael H. Granof Award which is designated for UT Austin’s Top 1 Doctoral Dissertation, the Google PhD Fellowship, the Adobe Research Fellowship, a Best Paper Award Runner Up at BMVC 2021, and a Best Paper Award Finalist at CVPR 2019.