Michael S. Ryoo
Scholar

Michael S. Ryoo

Google Scholar ID: vcw0TJIAAAAJ
Stony Brook University; Salesforce AI
RoboticsComputer VisionMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,893
 
H-index
44
 
i10-index
98
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
173
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - Pixel Motion as Universal Representation for Robot Control (arXiv:2505.07817)
  • - LLaRA: Supercharging Robot Learning Data for Vision-Language Policy (ICLR 2025)
  • - Understanding Long Videos in One Multimodal Language Model Pass (ICLR 2025)
  • - xGen-MM-Vid (BLIP-3-Video): You Only Need 32 Tokens to Represent a Video Even in VLMs (arXiv:2410.16267)
  • - Diffusion Illusions: Hiding Images in Plain Sight (SIGGRAPH 2024)
  • - Mirasol3B: A Multimodal Autoregressive Model for Time-aligned and Contextual Modalities (CVPR 2024)
  • - RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control (CoRL 2023)
  • - Active Vision Reinforcement Learning under Limited Visual Observability (NeurIPS 2023)
  • - Token Turing Machine
  • Awards:
  • - SARA-RT: Scaling up Robotics Transformers with Self-Adaptive Robust Attention received the Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation at ICRA 2024
  • - Diffusion Illusions: Hiding Images in Plain Sight received CVPR 2023 Outstanding Demo Award
Research Experience
  • Currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University; former assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington; former staff researcher within the Robotics Section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Education
  • Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008; B.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2004.
Background
  • Research interests include robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Worked with the AI research team at Salesforce, and previously with the robotics team at Google DeepMind (formerly Google Brain) for 5.5 years. Currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
Miscellany
  • Organizing CoRL 2025 conference in Seoul, Korea.