Srinivas Narayanan is an applied research lead at Facebook AI, where he does research and development in a wide range of areas such as PyTorch, computer vision, natural language, speech, and personalization to push the state of the art in AI to advance Facebook products. He’s led several major efforts at Facebook, including creating the interest graph, launching the location product, and leading engineering for photos, where he also helped start Facebook’s efforts in computer vision and deep learning. Previously, he was a founding member of two startups and part of the database systems research group at IBM Research – Almaden.