Dong Lao

Dong Lao is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering at Louisiana State University. He previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the UCLA Vision Lab under Prof. Stefano Soatto and earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from KAUST. His research focuses on computer vision with minimal human supervision, robustness of AI, computational imaging, and optimization, with work appearing in venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICML. He has published on unsupervised object discovery from video, which relates to the OPD (Object Purpose Discovery) topic attributed to his team in existing records.