University of Cambridge
Jianwen JiangResearcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs · MetaResearcher↗
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Nikhila Ravi
MetaAI Research Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Ravi helped create Segment Anything, a family of promptable vision models that can identify and track almost any object without task-specific retraining. She led SAM 2's extension from images to real-time video[1] and now directs media research at Meta, building visual foundation models and their data engines.
Career & education
Current roleMeta2017-presentAI Research Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta2017-presentEducation
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations38,514As of Oct 18, '26
Selected contributions
Segment Anything
With Alexander Kirillov, Eric Mintun, Hanzi Mao, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Tete Xiao, Spencer Whitehead and others ·SAM outlines objects in images in response to prompts such as clicks or boxes.
References
- Nikhila Ravi — Segment Anything researchnikhilaravi.com
She led SAM 2's extension from images to real-time video
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