Lorenzo Torresani

Research interests

• Computer Vision 
• Artificial intelligence 
• Machine learning 

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University 
• MS in Computer Science, Stanford University 
• Laurea in Computer Science, University of Milan — Italy 

Biography

Lorenzo Torresani is a professor and the President Joseph E. Aoun Chair in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. 

Upon joining Khoury College in 2025, Torresani intends to build a research lab focusing on the creation of "perceptual AI assistants” — AI agents that use wearable cameras to observe, understand, and assist humans in daily tasks. He is fascinated by the way that vision is effortless for humans yet challenging for machines, and he wants to create multimodal video understanding systems that go beyond recognizing user actions to discern how an activity is being performed. He teaches courses on deep learning, AI, and computer vision. 

Torresani’s research has been widely recognized, including with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, three Facebook Faculty Awards, and a Fulbright US Scholar Award. He has published 80 conference papers — including one which has been cited more than 10,000 times — and holds 11 patents. 

Before joining Northeastern University, Torresani served as a Research Director at Meta, designing and open sourcing influential models and benchmarks for video understanding. He also spent more than a decade as a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College. 

In his free time, Torresani is an avid off-pavement cyclist, and enjoys self-supported multi-day bikepacking in the wilderness.