His research interest is within the areas of Computer Vision and Robotics, with a particular emphasis on human activity recognition/learning, first-person computer vision, and human-robot interaction. Before joining IU, Dr. Ryoo was a staff researcher within the Robotics Section of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2011 to 2015. Dr. Ryoo received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, and the B.S. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2004. He has been organizing a number of tutorials and workshops at major Computer Vision conferences including CVPR 2011/2014/2016, and is the winner of the best vision paper award at ICRA 2016.