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 PublicationsIR-VIC: Unsupervised Discovery of Sub-goals for Transfer in RL
Nirbhay Modhe, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Mohit Sharma, Abhishek Das, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Ramakrishna Vedantam
IJCAI - January 5, 2021
Asynchronous Gradient-Push
Mahmoud Assran, Michael Rabbat
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control - January 1, 2021
Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation for ComputationallySecure Randomness, Consensus, and Threshold Signatures
Lefteris Kokoris Kogias, Dahlia Malkhi, Alexander Spiegelman
CCS - November 3, 2020
FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement
Mathieu Baudet, George Danezis, Alberto Sonnino
AFT - November 1, 2020
Weak-Attention Suppression For Transformer Based Speech Recognition
Yangyang Shi, Yongqiang Wang, Chunyang Wu, Christian Fuegen, Frank Zhang, Duc Le, Ching-Feng Yeh, Michael L. Seltzer
Interspeech - October 26, 2020
Winkle: Foiling Long-Range Attacks in Proof-of-Stake Systems
Sarah Azouvi, George Danezis, Valeria Nikolaenko
AFT - October 23, 2020
Taming the many EdDSAs
Kostas Chalkias, François Garillot, Valeria Nikolaenko
SSR - October 22, 2020
The Move Prover
Emma Zhong, Kevin Cheang, Shaz Qadeer, Wolfgang Grieskamp, Sam Blackshear, Junkil Park, Yoni Zohar, Clark Barrett, David Dill
CAV - October 21, 2020
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Developing tools, technologies and expertise to evolve the way we design
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Innovation comes through exploration and challenging our assumptions
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Bringing together different functions to find new perspective and achieve design excellence
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ContactPose: A Dataset of Grasps with Object Contact and Hand Pose
1:01 | August 31, 2020
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