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Nikhila Ravi

Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs who co-leads the Segment Anything team; first author of SAM 2

Nikhila Ravi is a Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), where Ravi co-leads the Segment Anything (SAM) team; Ravi's site says Ravi co-led the development of Segment Anything, SAM 2, and SAM 3. Ravi is first author of the SAM 2 paper (2024), a co-author of the original Segment Anything paper, and one of the project leads named in the SAM 3 repository. The SAM 2 repository releases model checkpoints, demo code, and training code under the Apache 2.0 license. An earlier Meta AI profile describes Ravi as a research engineer at FAIR and lists work on PyTorch3D.143652

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  1. 1.
    Nikhila Ravi — homepage (external site: nikhilaravi.com)

    Nikhila Ravi · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Segment Anything (arXiv 2304.02643) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Apr 5, 2023 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (arXiv 2408.00714) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Aug 1, 2024 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  5. 5.
    facebookresearch/sam2 README (authors and Apache 2.0 license) (external site: github.com)

    Meta (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    facebookresearch/sam3 README (authors and project leads) (external site: github.com)

    Meta (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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