Rui Yao is a professor at School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining Technology.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Yanning Zhang. He is a visiting scholar working with Dr. Damith Ranasinghe at the University of Adelaide, Australia, from Sept. 2016 to Sept. 2017. During Sept. 2011 to Oct. 2012, he was a visiting student at Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, University of Adelaide, under the supervision of Prof. Anton van den Hengel and Prof. Qinfeng (Javen) Shi.