Shugao

Shugao Ma is an accomplished researcher and manager specializing in computer vision and machine learning. Ma's professional experience includes internships at Microsoft, SAP, and Google, where contributions ranged from automatic video quality assessment techniques to machine learning systems for large-scale video data. As a Research Assistant at Boston University under Professor Stan Sclaroff, Ma focused on action recognition, multiple instance learning, and visual attribute learning. Subsequent roles at Disney Research involved exploring deep learning applications for action recognition in continuous videos. Ma has held various positions at Meta, culminating in the role of Senior Manager of Research Science in XR Input. An academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University, with a master thesis focused on image scene matching and video motion analysis.