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Professor has a staring problem and it might affect my reputation in the department

Hi all, using a throwaway for obvious reasons. 


I am a graduate student in the sciences. There's a Professor (I'll call him Orange) whose class I'm auditing and we had a few interactions over the past few weeks. I noticed that he had a tendency to stare for extended periods of time and would continue staring when I lock eyes with him, but I dismissed it as an idiosyncracy - some people are just big on eye contact. But the thing is that he isn't very subtle with his staring. We had a lunch gathering for the department yesterday. I sat at the table with the Profs for a short while to settle some details for my lab studies, and he was doing his staring thing again. And it was really obvious, because it was a small table, and I wasn't naturally positioned in his line of vision so he had to turn his body to stare. I was starting to feel uncomfortable and tried my best to not look at him. I think my Prof realized, because she directly addressed him and introduced me. After the event, I headed back to my Prof's office with her and another Prof. She made a remark about how "Orange was staring at darwinianfin like he was going to eat her". The other Prof, a male, awkwardly agreed.  I tried to make some excuses like maybe I looked like someone he knew, but I imagine that other Profs at the table would have noticed too, and it couldn't have reflected well on me. 


Does anyone have advice? Thanks in advance!
gpt
How does his blatant, inappropriate staring reflect badly on YOU? 

I wouldn't be surprised if he has a history of this kind of behavior. It sounds like they were thinking "Uh-Oh, Dr. Orange is being creepy again with a student."