People
People at Meta
104 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Meta; 35 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Adina Williams
Research Scientist
Research scientist at Meta's FAIR; first author of the MultiNLI corpus and co-author of Llama 2
Alexandr Wang
Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs
Scale AI founder and Meta's first Chief AI Officer, leading Meta Superintelligence Labs and its Muse models
Alexandre Gramfort
Research Science Director
Co-creator of scikit-learn and initial creator of MNE-Python; Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs
Andrew Bosworth
Chief Technology Officer; Head of Reality Labs
Chief Technology Officer of Meta and head of Reality Labs; leads Meta's Agent Transformation Accelerator
Christoph Feichtenhofer
Director, Research Scientist
Director and research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; SAM 3 project lead and SlowFast first author
Clara Shih
Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor at Meta; started Meta's Business AI Group; former CEO of Salesforce AI
Daniel Gross
Co-Lead, Meta Compute
Co-Lead of Meta Compute; co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. and of the search engine Cue
Edward Yang
Research Engineer
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers; research engineer at Meta
Eric Michael Smith
Research Scientist (the page's bio describes a Research Engineer role at FAIR)
Research scientist at Meta; first author of HolisticBias and a core contributor to Llama 3
Gabriel Synnaeve
Research scientist (joined FAIR as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015; listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2026 paper)
Research scientist at Meta; last author of Code Llama and co-author of Wav2Letter, EnCodec, and MusicGen
Jakob Foerster
Research Scientist, FAIR, Meta AI
Oxford associate professor and research scientist at FAIR (Meta); first author of COMA for multi-agent RL
Jason Wei
Works at Meta Superintelligence Labs
AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the chain-of-thought prompting paper
Jason Weston
Research Scientist
Research scientist at Meta; first author of Memory Networks and co-author of ParlAI and Self-Rewarding LMs
Jeff Johnson
Research Scientist, SysML group, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)
Meta FAIR research scientist; implemented the GPU version of the Faiss similarity search library
Jesse Dodge
Research scientist
Research scientist in Meta Superintelligence Labs; former OLMo evaluation lead at Ai2
Joel Schlosser
Listed with Meta on a June 2025 PyTorch blog post; GitHub profile lists Facebook as company
PyTorch module maintainer for torch.nn and torch.optim
Kilian Lieret
AI Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (joined February 2026)
AI research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; lead author of the SWE-sweep bug-fixing benchmark
Luke Zettlemoyer
Senior Research Director, Meta FAIR
University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Meta, builder of Facebook and open Llama models, and champion of personal superintelligence
Matt Deitke
AI researcher, leading a data pod
AI researcher at Meta; co-first author of Molmo and first author of ProcTHOR and Objaverse
Matthijs Douze
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), since November 2015
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; implemented most of the CPU side of the Faiss similarity search library
Nicolas Hug
ML engineer, working on PyTorch
Maintainer of PyTorch's TorchVision and TorchCodec libraries; ML engineer at Meta AI
Nikhila Ravi
Director; co-lead of the Segment Anything (SAM) team
Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs who co-leads the Segment Anything team; first author of SAM 2
Pascal Vincent
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)
Research scientist in Meta's FAIR team; first author of the stacked denoising autoencoders paper
Piotr Dollár
Research Director, FAIR
Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead
Ruoming Pang
Listed with Meta Platforms on the ScaleAcross Explorer paper (May 2026); GitHub profile lists Meta
Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on the Thinking Before Thinking paper (September 2026)
UPMC Professor of Computer Science in Carnegie Mellon's Machine Learning Department; co-author of dropout
Sanyuan Chen
Research Scientist
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; first author of WavLM and co-first author of VALL-E
Shengjia Zhao
Chief Scientist for the new lab effort (as stated by Meta in July 2025)
Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs; earlier a contributor to GPT-4 and OpenAI o1
Thomas Scialom
Listed with GenAI, Meta on 2023 papers and with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2025 paper and a February 2026 paper (Gaia2)
Corresponding author of Meta's Llama 2 paper; a lead author of the ARE agent platform and Gaia2 benchmark
Yang Song
Research Principal
Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the score SDE and consistency models papers
Yu-An Chung
Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
Research scientist at FAIR (Meta) working on speech; in the technical leadership of Omnilingual ASR
Zhuohan Li
AI Research Scientist
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; AI Research Scientist at Meta focusing on inference
Abdelrahman Mohamed
Research scientist at FAIR (joined September 2018) (earlier role)
Speech researcher; co-author of wav2vec 2.0 and HuBERT at Facebook AI Research
Aditya Grover
Research scientist during a gap year (earlier role)
Co-founder and CTO of Inception; Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA leading the MINT group
Ahmad Al-Dahle
Led Generative AI and the team behind the Llama models (founded the Generative AI group in early 2023; joined in 2020 to lead mapping and applied AI in Reality Labs) (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb; founded Meta's Generative AI group and led the team behind Llama
Albert Jiang
Research Scientist Intern (July to October 2022) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Mistral AI; first author of the Mistral 7B and Mixtral of Experts papers
Alex Rives
Started and led the Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) project (earlier role)
Head of Science at Biohub; founder and former chief scientist of EvolutionaryScale, developer of ESM3
Alexander Kirillov
Research scientist, FAIR (earlier role)
First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR
Alexandre Défossez
Research scientist at FAIR for three years, leading the music generation effort (MusicGen) (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Gradium and co-founder of Kyutai; behind MusicGen, EnCodec and Moshi
Alexei Baevski
Listed with Facebook AI on the wav2vec 2.0 paper (2020) (earlier role)
First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author
Ami Vora
Senior product roles across WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram (earlier role)
Chief Product Officer of Anthropic, leading the product organization behind Claude
Amjad Masad
Tech lead on the JavaScript infrastructure team (earlier role)
Founder and CEO of Replit; former tech lead on Facebook's JavaScript infrastructure team
Andrea Vedaldi
Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (2018–2023) and Meta Generative AI (2023–2026) (earlier role)
Oxford professor who co-leads the Visual Geometry Group; Amazon Scholar; co-author of DINOv3 and VGGT
Angela Fan
Research Scientist (earlier role)
Llama 3 core contributor and Llama 2 co-author; machine translation research at Meta's FAIR, including NLLB
Armand Joulin
Author listed with Facebook AI Research (2016) and Meta AI (2023) (earlier role)
Lead of the Gemma 2 and Gemma 3 reports at Google DeepMind; co-author of Meta's LLaMA and the fastText papers
Armen Aghajanyan
Led multimodal research initiatives at FAIR (earlier role)
Co-founder of Perceptron; first author of CM3 and joint first author of Meta's Chameleon models
Baptiste Rozière
Research scientist in the code generation team (earlier role)
First author of Code Llama and co-author of LLaMA and Llama 3; later an author on Mistral AI model papers
Bichen Wu
Listed with GenAI, Meta as first author of the Fairy paper (2023); FBNet work done while interning at Facebook (earlier role)
Computer vision researcher; first author of Meta's Fairy video-editing paper and of FBNet
Brian Hie
Visiting Researcher (2022–2023) (earlier role)
Stanford assistant professor and Arc Institute Innovation Investigator; co-senior author of Evo 2
Christoph Lassner
Research team lead (earlier role)
Co-founder of World Labs; author of the Pulsar sphere-based renderer used as a PyTorch3D backend
Danqi Chen
Research scientist, Facebook AI Research (FAIR) (earlier role)
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
David Grangier
Machine learning research (2014–2018) (earlier role)
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
Denis Yarats
AI Research Scientist (earlier role)
Co-founder and CTO of Perplexity; first author of DrQ-v2 for reinforcement learning from pixels
Dmytro Dzhulgakov
PyTorch core maintainer (earlier role)
Co-founder of Fireworks AI; previously a PyTorch core maintainer at Meta
Douwe Kiela
Research Scientist (earlier role)
Researcher at Google DeepMind; co-founder and former CEO of Contextual AI; co-author of the RAG paper
Edouard Grave
Research scientist; co-led the development of LLaMA and the fastText library (earlier role)
Equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper; co-author of fastText and of Kyutai's Moshi
Emmanuel Dupoux
Listed with Facebook AI Research, and also at EHESS, on the generative spoken language modeling paper (2021) (earlier role)
EHESS professor in the Cognitive Machine Learning team; co-author of FAIR's generative spoken language work
Francisco Massa
Facebook AI Research, as listed on GitHub profile (earlier role)
Emeritus TorchVision maintainer and co-author of Meta's DINOv3, DETR and Detectron2
Gabe Pereyra
Machine learning engineer (before 2022) (earlier role)
President and co-founder of Harvey; co-author of the post introducing Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark
Greg Chanan
Listed with Facebook AI Research (2019) and Meta (2024) as an author of PyTorch papers (earlier role)
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the original PyTorch paper and the PyTorch 2 paper
Guillaume Lample
Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of Meta's LLaMA paper
Horace He
Worked on PyTorch and torch.compile (earlier role)
PyTorch core maintainer and torch.compile contributor; wrote a Thinking Machines post on LLM nondeterminism
Jade Copet
Listed with Meta AI, FAIR Team on the EnCodec paper (2022) and with Meta AI on the MusicGen paper (2023) (earlier role)
First author of MusicGen and co-first author of EnCodec, both released in Meta's AudioCraft library
Jay Parikh
Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure (earlier role)
Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft; former global head of engineering at Facebook
Jitendra Malik
Research Scientist Director and Site Lead (2018–2019), Research Scientist Director (part-time, 2020–2024), VP of Robotics Research (2025) (earlier role)
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
Joe Spisak
Previously worked at Meta; listed as a Llama 3 core contributor (earlier role)
VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI; PyTorch core maintainer
Joelle Pineau
VP AI Research, heading the FAIR team (2017–2025) (earlier role)
Chief AI Officer at Cohere and McGill professor; led Meta's FAIR research team from 2017 to 2025
John X. Morris
Part-time student researcher (earlier role)
AI researcher (Jack Morris) and second author of the Nomic Embed technical report; creator of TextAttack
Ju-Chieh Chou
Research Intern (2022, Meta AI; 2025, Meta) (earlier role)
TTIC PhD student in speech and language processing; former research intern at Meta and Microsoft
Kaiming He
Research scientist, FAIR (2016–2024) (earlier role)
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Kyunghyun Cho
Research Scientist, Facebook AI Research (June 2017 – May 2020) (earlier role)
NYU professor of computer science and data science; co-author of the RNN encoder-decoder and attention papers
Lauren Tan
Software Engineer (earlier role)
React Compiler core team engineer who helped bring automatic memoization to React, now at xAI and Cursor
Luke Melas-Kyriazi
Visiting Researcher (part-time, during PhD) (earlier role)
Building Cursor at Anysphere; former Meta visiting researcher working on 3D generation
Marie-Anne Lachaux
Author listed with Facebook AI Research (2020), Meta AI (2023) and GenAI, Meta (2023) (earlier role)
Co-author of Meta's LLaMA and Llama 2 papers and of Mistral 7B; first author on unsupervised code translation
Mark Saroufim
Listed with Meta as an author of the PyTorch 2 paper (2024) (earlier role)
Co-founder of Core Automation and of GPU MODE; PyTorch maintainer whose work includes torchao
Michael Auli
Principal Research Scientist/Director (earlier role)
Former Principal Research Scientist/Director at Meta FAIR; last author of wav2vec 2.0, fairseq, and MMS
Mido Assran
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) (earlier role)
Scientist at Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI); first author of V-JEPA 2 and I-JEPA from Meta FAIR
Myle Ott
Led large language model efforts (earlier role)
Founding-team member at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of fairseq and co-author of OPT and RoBERTa
Nikita Shulga
Software Engineer, responsible for PyTorch releases and continuous integration (earlier role)
PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI
Noam Brown
Researcher, Meta Fundamental AI Research Diplomacy Team (earlier role)
OpenAI research scientist working on reasoning; creator of Libratus and Pluribus; CICERO co-author
Ron Mokady
Spent the 2020 summer at FAIR, supervised by Lior Wolf (earlier role)
VP of Research at BRIA AI; co-author of Prompt-to-Prompt and first author of Null-text Inversion
Ronan Collobert
Research scientist (earlier role)
Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight
Ross Girshick
Research scientist, FAIR (2015–2023) (earlier role)
First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2
Saining Xie
Research scientist, FAIR (four years) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
Sam Gross
Listed with Facebook AI Research as an author of the 2019 PyTorch paper (earlier role)
Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional
Sasha Rush
Post-doctoral fellow at Facebook AI Research (2015) (earlier role)
ML researcher; former Cornell and Harvard professor and former Cursor and Hugging Face researcher
Sasha Sheng
Research engineer working on News Feed, AI experiences and AI research (past) (earlier role)
Co-founder and COO of TypeSafe AI; former research engineer at Meta and FAIR
Sergey Edunov
Senior Director of AI Research, generative AI organization; earlier a research leader on the FAIR team (earlier role)
CTO of Genesis Molecular AI; formerly led development of Meta's Llama 2 and Llama 3 models
Soumith Chintala
11 years at Meta (earlier role)
Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack
Stephen Roller
Senior Staff Research Engineer (2017–2023) (earlier role)
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR
Susan Zhang
Built the LLM training infrastructure that created OPT-175B (earlier role)
Co-first author of Meta AI's OPT; built LLM training infrastructure at FAIR and RL systems for OpenAI Five
Timothée Lacroix
Co-author of the LLaMA paper, listed with a Meta AI affiliation (2023) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CTO of Mistral AI; co-author of Meta's LLaMA paper
Tina Huang
Data scientist (earlier role)
YouTube creator on AI and coding, and founder and CEO of the AI education company Lonely Octopus
Vikash Kumar
Research Scientist, FAIR–Meta AI (Nov 2020 – Apr 2023) (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Myolab.ai and CMU adjunct professor; lead creator of MyoSuite and RoboHive
Vladimir Fedorov
Senior Vice President of engineering for privacy, ads and platform (12 years, past) (earlier role)
Chief Technology Officer of GitHub; co-founder of UserClouds and former engineering leader at Facebook
William Falcon
Past affiliation (listed as former on Falcon's GitHub profile) (earlier role)
Creator of PyTorch Lightning and CEO of Lightning AI
Xinlei Chen
Research Scientist, FAIR (earlier role)
Contributes to multimodal work at OpenAI; formerly at xAI and Meta FAIR; first author of SimSiam
Yangqing Jia
Director of Engineering; built Facebook's general-purpose AI platform and co-led PyTorch 1.0 (earlier role)
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist (2018–2025); founding Director of Facebook AI Research (2013–2017) (earlier role)
Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and NYU professor; former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-author of V-JEPA 2
Yuxin Wu
Worked on computer vision at Facebook AI Research (earlier role)
Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR
Zhilin Yang
Worked at Meta AI with Jason Weston (earlier role)
Co-first author of XLNet and Transformer-XL; earlier worked at Google Brain and Meta AI
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