Vikas Chandra is a Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs, where he leads an AI research team building efficient on-device AI for AI glasses and other mixed-reality products. These devices perceive the world as the wearer does, using context to anticipate needs and take action, laying the foundation for the next generation of human-device interaction.
Prior to joining Meta in 2018, Dr. Chandra was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Research, where his team helped pioneer tinyML, a new field of machine learning that enables AI to run on small, resource-constrained devices.
Dr. Chandra holds an MS and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has also served as Visiting Scholar (2011-2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016-2017) in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University. He has authored more than 200 research papers and is an inventor on over 40 US and international patents. In recognition of his technical leadership, Dr. Chandra received the ACM/SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 2017. In 2026, he received the Outstanding Alumni Award from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering.
