Scholar
Nikhila Ravi
Google Scholar ID: xOrRvKAAAAAJ
Meta AI Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
18,202
H-index
14
i10-index
16
Publications
19
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- SAM 2 was awarded the ICLR 2025 Best Paper Honourable Mention Award.
- SAM 2 was integrated into the new Instagram Edits app to power the video 'Cutouts' feature.
- SAM 2 has been accepted as an Oral Presentation at ICLR 2025.
- Hosted a SAM 2 Tutorial at NeurIPS 2024.
- Released SAM 2.1 checkpoints and the SAM 2 Developer Suite: full training/fine-tuning code and the frontend & backend code for the SAM 2 web demo.
- Enjoyed talking about all things SAM on the LatentSpace Podcast.
- Released the SAM 2 project from Meta AI, extending SAM 1 to video.
- Received the 2024 Royal Academy of Engineering Young Engineer of the Year Award.
- Published several papers including Perception Encoder, PerceptionLM, SAM 2, Segment Anything, Omni3D, Learning 3D Object Shape and Layout without 3D Supervision, Recognizing Scenes from Novel Viewpoints, Omnivore, Worldsheet, Accelerating 3D Deep Learning with PyTorch3D, etc.
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Engineering Manager at Meta (FAIR). Involved in multiple research projects such as SAM 2, Perception Encoder, etc.
Education
- Received BEng and MEng degrees with First Class Honours from Downing College, Cambridge University.
Background
- Research interests include AI/ML. Received a John F. Kennedy Scholarship to study AI/ML at Harvard University for a year.
