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 PublicationsACL - October 1, 2021
DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue
Hung Le, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur
Interspeech - August 31, 2021
Transformer-based Acoustic Modeling for Streaming Speech Synthesis
Chunyang Wu, Zhiping Xiu, Yangyang Shi, Ozlem Kalinli, Christian Fuegen, Thilo Koehler, Qing He
Interspeech - August 29, 2021
Do Sound Event Representations Generalize To Other Audio Tasks? A Case Study In Audio Transfer Learning
Anurag Kumar, Yun Wang, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Christian Fuegen
EUSIPCO - August 23, 2021
Adaptive Multi-Channel Signal Enhancement Based on Multi-Source Contribution Estimation
Jacob Donley, Vladimir Tourbabin, Boaz Rafaely, Ravish Mehra
IJCAI - August 20, 2021
Online Selection of Diverse Committees
Virginie Do, Jamal Atif, Jérôme Lang, Nicolas Usunier
SIGKDD - August 13, 2021
Preference Amplification in Recommender Systems
Dimitris Kalimeris, Smriti Bhagat, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Udi Weinsberg
SIGGRAPH - 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
SIGGRAPH - August 9, 2021
Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering
Stephen Lombardi, Tomas Simon, Gabriel Schwartz, Michael Zollhoefer, Yaser Sheikh, Jason Saragih
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Videos
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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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