About
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 Student Paper Award at WASPAA 2025, a Best Paper Award Runner Up at BMVC 2021, and a Best Paper Award Finalist at CVPR 2019.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Graph property preservation under community-based sampling
Year: 2015
Citations: 7
Venue: 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Latest Recorded Paper
ControlTac: Force-and Position-Controlled Tactile Data Augmentation with a Single Reference Image
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.20498
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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