I followed my curiosity towards AI technology and joined Facebook’s new AI Design team, a group within Facebook AI Research tasked with finding real world applications of their new tech. As one of a handful of designers, we brought a human centered design lens to the organization, and created new product concepts around social robotics, generative AI and more. One product launch I supported in 2018 was Facebook’s new hardware product  - a video calling device called Facebook Portal. When users wanted to make a call they could say “Hey Portal call (Friend name)”. I supported the development of voice recognition so that it was able to respond to a globally diverse set of first names across dialects and pronunciations. During this time I also assisted with various accessibility efforts, one using computer vision to make photos experience able to visually impaired users on the Facebook platform. As most of this work is under NDA, here are a few public links of various efforts during my time there.
🔗 Accessibility Work Demo

🔗 Gaming AI Research