We use machine learning across a diverse set of applications to help people discover better content more quickly, and to connect with the things that matter most to them. We strive to find ways to deliver more engaging content in News Feed, rank search results more accurately, and present the most relevant ads possible. We share many of our discoveries back with the academic community through conferences…

The Computational Photography applied research group’s mission is to delight Facebook users with new and enhanced visual media (photo and video) experiences. Our interests and expertise range from traditional image and video enhancement techniques, such as stabilization, de-blurring, de-noising, and tone adjustment, to creating composite media such as panoramic (360°) photos and videos, video loops,…

Since we launched Internet.org, it’s been our mission to find ways to provide internet connectivity to the more than 4 billion people who are not yet online. Our goal is to accelerate the development of a new set of technologies that can drastically change the economics of deploying internet infrastructure. We are exploring a number of different approaches to this challenge, including aircraft, satellites…

The Data Science team conducts large scale, quantitative research to gain deeper insights into how people interact with each other and with their world. To accomplish these goals, we also build scalable platforms for the collection, management, and analysis of data.Our findings inform decisions in areas critical to the success of the company, improve the experiences people have on the site, and are…

We’re committed to advancing the field of machine intelligence and developing technologies that give people better ways to communicate. In the long term, we seek to understand intelligence and make intelligent machines. How will we accomplish all this? By building the best AI lab in the world.Research at the lab covers the full spectrum of topics related to AI, and to deriving knowledge from data:…

Facebook's mission is to connect the world. We build systems that allow more than a billion people all over the world to connect and communicate using whatever devices they have available. Our systems need to be scalable, fast, reliable, and efficient in order to provide a great user experience. As we design and build these systems, Facebook engineers encounter grand challenges across all levels of…

Facebook was built to help nearly 1.5 billion people connect and share, and over the last decade our tools have played a critical part in changing how people around the world communicate with one another. At this scale and rate of growth, we face new challenges on a daily basis. As Facebook grows and evolves, new network workloads arise with increasingly demanding performance and reliability requirements.…

The User Experience Research team is a diverse and collaborative group of researchers who work directly with product teams to create compelling social experiences on Facebook. Our work ranges from formative to evaluative, from ethnography to usability, from survey measurement to experimental design and log data analysis. UX Researchers come from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds but share…