10 Meta research scientists
Senior Research Scientist, AI Research Scientist and Research Scientist are among the titles these ten Meta research scientists hold today. A reader can learn what research science at Meta involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
Andros Tjandra
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Meta
Andros Tjandra has been a Senior Research Scientist at Meta since March 2022, after serving as a Research Scientist at Meta from 2020 to 2022. The profile headline names Meta (FAIR), and the profile also lists Research Scientist roles at Google (2020), Facebook (2019) and RIKEN (2018–2019).
Bing Liu
LinkedInExperience: AI Research Scientist · Meta
Bing Liu has been an AI Research Scientist at Meta since June 2026 and held the AI Research Lead - Generative AI role at Meta from 2023 to 2024. The profile also lists Director of Research (2024–2025) and Head of Research (2025–2026) at Scale AI, and describes current work in AI research at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Chen Xing
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Meta
Chen Xing has been a Research Scientist at Meta since August 2025, described in the profile as ML Research Scientist at Meta Super Intelligence Lab. The profile also lists Senior Research Scientist, Strategic Partnership Lead at Scale AI (2024–2025) and research scientist roles at Salesforce from 2021 to 2024.
Fei Sha
LinkedInExperience: AI Research Scientist · Meta
Fei Sha has been an AI Research Scientist at Meta since October 2025 and was a Research Scientist at Google from 2019 to 2025. The profile lists faculty roles at the University of Southern California and describes interests in fundamental AI research on language and vision and in AI for physical science.
Ishan Misra
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Facebook
Ishan Misra has been a Research Scientist at Facebook since January 2018, according to the profile. They describe being a Research Scientist at GenAI Research (Meta) leading the generative efforts on video, and say they were previously part of the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta working on self-supervised learning.
Katherine Ann Morris
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, Demography and Survey Science · Meta
Katherine Ann Morris has been Research Scientist, Demography and Survey Science at Meta since November 2021, after holding the same title at Facebook from 2019 to 2021. The profile describes designing, collecting and analyzing large-scale, multi-country surveys on the Demography and Survey Science team.
Nikhil Mehta
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist, MSL · Meta
Nikhil Mehta has been Senior Research Scientist, MSL at Meta since August 2025 and held the Research Scientist, GenAI at Meta role from 2024 to 2025. The profile describes the current role as Senior AI Research Scientist at Meta Super Intelligence Labs and lists NLP/AI Ph.D. research at Purdue University (2017–2024).
Saikat Majumdar
LinkedInExperience: Senior Research Scientist · Meta
Saikat Majumdar has been a Senior Research Scientist at Meta since February 2026, following the Research Scientist role at Meta from 2024 to 2026. The profile describes PhD research specializing in machine learning security from a systems perspective, with a focus on vulnerability analysis and the robustness of deep neural networks.
Wei Wen
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, Pod Group Lead · Meta
Wei Wen has been Research Scientist, Pod Group Lead at Meta since April 2026, after serving as Research Scientist, Tech Lead Manager (2025–2026) and Research Scientist, Tech Lead (2021–2025) there. The profile describes research in machine learning and deep learning, including automated machine learning, efficient deep neural networks and distributed deep learning.
Zheng Xu
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Meta
Zheng Xu has been a Staff Research Scientist at Meta since August 2025, describing the work as large models safety and trust. The profile also lists research scientist roles at Google from 2019 to 2025, ending as Staff Research Scientist, with work on federated learning, differential privacy, synthetic data and privacy-preserving machine learning.
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