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Portrait of Ruihan (Philip) Zhao

PhD student

Ruihan (Philip) Zhao

At the lab since 2021

Computer vision, robotics and deep reinforcement learning (VLA models, sparse-reward learning)

  • Samsung intern 2025
  • Apple intern 2026
  • PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UT Austin

ruihan [dot] zhao [at] utexas [dot] edu

Personal Website

Office
Anna Hiss Gym 2.204, 2501 Wichita St,
Austin, TX 78712

Ruihan Zhao (Philip) is a PhD student in ECE since Fall 2021, co-advised by Dr. Sandeep Chinchali and Dr. Ufuk Topcu. He holds an MS Computer Science from UC Berkeley, advised by Dr. Pieter Abbeel, and a Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

Philip’s current research direction is computer vision, robotics, and deep reinforcement learning.

Outside of research, Philip likes to play badminton and build drones.