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
Computational Photography & Intelligent Cameras
Mobile visual processing to understand, augment, and enhance sharing and connections
Computer Vision
Understanding the visual world around us
Connectivity
Connecting the unconnected
Data Science
Gaining insights to deliver meaningful social interactions
Economics & Computation
Exploring the intersection of economics and computation
Facebook AI Research
Advancing the field of machine intelligence
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
Security & Privacy
Keeping the Facebook community safe and secure
Systems & Networking
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 & Networking
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
Facebook AI Research
Aude Hofleitner
Research Scientist Manager
Data Science
Nicolas Stier
Co-Director of Core Data Science
Connectivity, Data Science, Economics & Computation, Machine Learning, Systems & Networking
Lauren Scissors
Research Director
Human Computer Interaction & UX
Latest Publications
All PublicationsAsynchronous Gradient-Push
Mahmoud Assran, Michael Rabbat
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control - January 1, 2021
A Scalable Approach to Control Diverse Behaviors for Physically Simulated Characters
Jungdam Won, Deepak Gopinath, Jessica Hodgins
ACM SIGGRAPH - July 19, 2020
Can You Put it All Together: Evaluating Conversational Agents’ Ability to Blend Skills
Eric Michael Smith, Mary Williamson, Kurt Shuster, Jason Weston, Y-Lan Boureau
ACL - June 19, 2020
PIFuHD: Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization
Shunsuke Saito, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Hanbyul Joo
CVPR - June 16, 2020
ARCH: Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humans
Zeng Huang, Yuanlu Xu, Christoph Lassner, Hao Li, Tony Tung
CVPR - June 15, 2020
Designing Network Design Spaces
Ilija Radosavovic, Raj Prateek Kosaraju, Ross Girshick, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollar
CVPR - June 14, 2020
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Open Source Projects
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