Research Areas
Giving people the power to share and connect requires constant innovation
At Facebook, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems. Working on cutting edge research with a practical focus, we push product boundaries every day. At the same time, we publish papers, give talks, and collaborate broadly with the academic community.
We solve real-world problems that impact billions of people in areas such as:
Research Areas at Facebook
AR/VR
Creating the future of personal and shared reality
Artificial Intelligence
Advancing the field of machine intelligence
Blockchain & Cryptoeconomics
Changing the way money moves
Computational Photography & Intelligent Cameras
Mobile visual processing to understand, augment, and enhance sharing and connections
Computer Vision
Understanding the visual world around us
Data Science
Gaining insights to deliver meaningful social interactions
Databases
We build the next generation of data systems that help connect the world
Economics & Computation
Exploring the intersection of economics and computation
Human Computer Interaction & UX
Understanding and improving social experiences
Machine Learning
Applying machine learning science to Facebook products
Natural Language Processing & Speech
Breaking down language barriers
Networking & Connectivity
Data networks that support the social network
Security & Privacy
Keeping the Facebook community safe and secure
Systems & Infrastructure
Building the systems to bring the world closer together
Our people
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Jordan Eschler
UX Researcher
Human Computer Interaction & UX
Mark Harman
Research Scientist
Systems & Infrastructure
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
Artificial Intelligence
Aude Hofleitner
Research Scientist Manager
Data Science
Nicolas Stier
Co-Director of Core Data Science
Data Science, Economics & Computation, Machine Learning, Networking & Connectivity, Systems & Infrastructure
Lauren Scissors
Research Director
Human Computer Interaction & UX
Latest Publications
All PublicationsCGO - March 1, 2021
HHVM Jump-Start: Boosting Both Warmup and Steady-State Performance at Scale
Guilherme Ottoni, Bin Liu
USENIX FAST - February 23, 2021
Facebook’s Tectonic Filesystem: Efficiency from Exascale
Satadru Pan, Theano Stavrinos, Yunqiao Zhang, Atul Sikaria, Pavel Zakharov, Abhinav Sharma, Shiva Shankar, Mike Shuey, Richard Wareing, Monika Gangapuram, Guanglei Cao, Christian Preseau, Pratap Singh, Kestutis Patiejunas, JR Tipton, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Wyatt Lloyd
USENIX Security - February 22, 2021
SocialHEISTing: Understanding Stolen Facebook Accounts
Jeremiah Onaolapo, Nektarios Leontiadis, Despoina Magka, Gianluca Stringhini
WWRF - January 25, 2021
Improving Rural Connectivity Coverage using Diffractive Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) Wireless Backhaul
Julius Kusuma, Erik Boch
ICPR - January 15, 2021
Meta Learning via Learned Loss
Sarah Bechtle, Artem Molchanov, Yevgen Chebotar, Edward Grefenstette, Ludovic Righetti, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Franziska Meier
IJCAI - January 5, 2021
IR-VIC: Unsupervised Discovery of Sub-goals for Transfer in RL
Nirbhay Modhe, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Mohit Sharma, Abhishek Das, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Ramakrishna Vedantam
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control - January 1, 2021
Asynchronous Gradient-Push
Mahmoud Assran, Michael Rabbat
EC - December 23, 2020
Matching Algorithms for Blood Donation
Duncan C. McElfresh, Christian Kroer, Sergey Pupyrev, Eric Sodomka, Karthik Abinav Sankararaman, Zack Chauvin, Neil Dexter, John P. Dickerson
Latest News
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February 23, 2021
Mitigating the effects of silent data corruption at scale
Engineering blog
February 11, 2021
Facebook’s UX research internship demystified
UX Research blogVideos
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Developing tools, technologies and expertise to evolve the way we design
1:44 | October 14, 2020
Innovation comes through exploration and challenging our assumptions
1:35 | October 14, 2020
Bringing together different functions to find new perspective and achieve design excellence
1:38 | September 8, 2020
ContactPose: A Dataset of Grasps with Object Contact and Hand Pose
1:01 | August 31, 2020
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