Ruohan Zhang

Ruohan Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance. They will join Northwestern University, Department of Computer Science in Fall 2026.

Research Focus:

• Human-centered artificial intelligence
• Robotic manipulation and learning
• Human-robot interaction
• Brain-machine interfaces
• Neuroscience-inspired AI

Key Contributions:

• Developed BEHAVIOR Robot Suite for whole-body manipulation tasks
• Created UAD framework for unsupervised affordance distillation
• Advanced Chain-of-Modality approach for multimodal robotic learning

Recent Scientific Awards:

• Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance Fellowship (2022-24)
• AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium Scholarship (2019)
• Google AR/VR Research Award (2017-18)
• College Continuing Fellowship (2014-17)

Teaching & Service:

• Organizer of ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS workshops
• Instructor for CS231n: Deep Learning for Computer Vision at Stanford (2023)
• Teaching Assistant experience in Computational Brain, Machine Learning, and Discrete Mathematics at Stanford and UT Austin