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

He leads the FarSight Lab, whose research focuses on perception, anticipation, and planning in dynamic environments, including egocentric video understanding for wearable assistants and strategic reasoning over multi-agent scenes such as team sports. He serves on the organizing committee of Northeastern's Physical AI Research initiative (PAIR), an interdisciplinary effort to advance intelligent systems that learn from, reason about, and act in the physical world. He is fascinated by the way that vision is effortless for humans yet challenging for machines, and 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.

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.