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 PublicationsASRU - December 13, 2021
Incorporating Real-world Noisy Speech in Neural-network-based Speech Enhancement Systems
Yangyang Xia, Buye Xu, Anurag Kumar
RAMICS - November 2, 2021
On Algebra of Program Correctness and Incorrectness
Bernhard Möller, Peter O'Hearn, Tony Hoare
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) - November 1, 2021
Prioritizing Original News on Facebook
Xiuyan Ni, Shujian Bu, Lucas Adams, Igor L. Markov
EMNLP - October 31, 2021
Evaluation Paradigms in Question Answering
Pedro Rodriguez, Jordan Boyd-Graber
ACM MM - October 20, 2021
EVRNet: Efficient Video Restoration on Edge Devices
Sachin Mehta, Amit Kumar, Fitsum Reda, Varun Nasery, Vikram Mulukutla, Rakesh Ranjan, Vikas Chandra
FMCAD - October 19, 2021
Lookahead in Partitioning SMT
Antti E. J. Hyvärinen, Matteo Marescotti, Natasha Sharygina
ICCV - October 11, 2021
Egocentric Pose Estimation from Human Vision Span
Hao Jiang, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu
ICCV - October 10, 2021
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
Mathilde Caron, Hugo Touvron, Ishan Misra, Hervé Jégou, Julien Mairal, Piotr Bojanowski, Armand Joulin
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Videos
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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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TexMesh: Reconstructing Human Texture and Geometry from Monocular Video
| August 31, 2020
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