Teaching AI to See, Hear and Feel the Same World
Multisensory learning; embodied perception
Speaker
Ruohan Gao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Biography
Ruohan Gao is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he leads the Multisensory Machine Intelligence Lab. His research studies how machines can combine sight, sound and touch to understand and interact with their environment. He earned his doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin and completed postdoctoral research at Stanford. His work includes multisensory object datasets, audio-visual scene modelling and sensory fusion for robotic manipulation, connecting perception research with embodied AI.