Profile

Vikas Chandra leads the On-device AI applied research and engineering organization at Facebook Reality Labs responsible for developing real-time on-device computer vision, machine perception and speech/NLU technologies across AR/VR products. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. He has held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 – 2017) at Stanford University. Dr. Chandra has authored 80+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. He received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He is a senior member of IEEE. His research interests include all aspects of SW/HW co-design for efficient On-device AI.