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 PublicationsICPR - 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
SPCE - December 21, 2020
Contact Burn Injuries Part I: The influence of object thermal mass
May Yen, Francesco Colella, Harri Kytomaa, Boyd Allin, Alex Ockfen
SPCE - December 21, 2020
Contact Burn Injuries Part II: The influence of object shape, size, contact resistance, and applied heat flux
May Yen, Francesco Colella, Harri Kytomaa, Boyd Allin, Alex Ockfen
NeurIPS - December 16, 2020
Online Bayesian Persuasion
Matteo Castiglioni, Andrea Celli, Alberto Marchesi, Nicola Gatti
NeurIPS - December 15, 2020
Triple descent and the two kinds of overfitting: Where & why do they appear?
Stéphane d'Ascoli, Levent Sagun, Giulio Biroli
COLING - December 8, 2020
Situated and Interactive Multimodal Conversations
Seungwhan Moon, Satwik Kottur, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Shivani Poddar, Theodore Levin, David Whitney, Daniel Difranco, Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon Cho, Rajen Subba, Alborz Geramifard
Latest News
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December 9, 2020
How Facebook keeps its large-scale infrastructure hardware up and running
Engineering blog
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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