Ruohan Zhang
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRuohan Zhang is an Assistant Professor and former Stanford postdoc with 11 years of experience at the intersection of reinforcement learning, robotics, and computational neuroscience. Trained with a Ph.D. from UT Austin and mentorship under leaders like Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe, Ruohan focuses on understanding human intelligence to inspire biologically grounded AI that better integrates with people. Their work bridges theory and embodied systems, developing algorithms informed by human perception and behavior while validating them in robotic settings. Currently based in Palo Alto and transitioning to Northwestern, Ruohan combines deep academic rigor with hands-on research in vision and learning under advisors Fei-Fei Li, Jiajun Wu, and Silvio Savarese. An unexpected thread in their background is a BA in Psychology, which underpins a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to AI that centers human compatibility.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology at Rhodes College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
omniverse10
nvidia10
arcade9
reinforcement-learning8
robot-simulator8
simulation8
robotics6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
benchmarking5
artificial-intelligence5
benchmark5
python1
pytorch1
pandas1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
corgiTrax/Fovea-Rendering
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
corgiTrax/personal_website
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:25 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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