Adel Ahmadyan

Adel Ahmadyan is a Staff Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, where he is the Technical Lead for the development of multimodal systems and large vision-language models. Prior to joining Meta, Dr. Ahmadyan was a key contributor at Google, where he focused on on-device machine learning. His work at Google was instrumental in advancing the company’s on-device ML capabilities and enabled features across many products, including Google Pixel, Meet, Photos and YouTube. With over a decade of industry experience in computer vision, he has been constantly pushing the boundaries of real-time computer vision and live perception on-device and on-edge. Adel holds a PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also holds both a master’s and bachelor’s degree from Sharif University of Technology. Adel lives in San Francisco and spends most of his spare time in the Sierras.