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 PublicationsSIGGRAPH - August 9, 2021
Deep Relightable Appearance Models for Animatable Faces
Sai Bi, Stephen Lombardi, Shunsuke Saito, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, Kevyn Mcphail, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Yaser Sheikh, Jason Saragih
VLDB - July 31, 2021
CALYPSO: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Enis Ceyhun Alp, Linus Gasser, Philipp Jovanovic, Ewa Syta, Bryan Ford
CVPR - June 19, 2021
Pixel Codec Avatars
Shugao Ma, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Dawei Wang, Yuecheng Li, Fernando De la Torre, Yaser Sheikh
CVPR - June 19, 2021
SimPoE: Simulated Character Control for 3D Human Pose Estimation
Ye Yuan, Shih-En Wei, Tomas Simon, Kris Kitani, Jason Saragih
CVPR - June 11, 2021
Lips Don’t Lie: A Generalisable and Robust Approach to Face Forgery Detection
Alexandros Haliassos, Konstantinos Vougioukas, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
ICASSP - June 6, 2021
Multi-Channel Speech Enhancement Using Graph Neural Networks
Panagiotis Tzirakis, Anurag Kumar, Jacob Donley
CVPR - June 1, 2021
Semi-supervised Synthesis of High-Resolution Editable Textures for 3D Humans
Bindita Chaudhuri, Nikolaos Sarafianos, Linda Shapiro, Tony Tung
CHI - May 8, 2021
Hashtag-Forget: Using Social Media Ephemerality to Support Evolving Identities
Michal Luria, Nate Foulds
Latest News
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April 26, 2021
DIT — enabling de-identified data collection on WhatsApp
Engineering 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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