Summary
Anuj Pahuja is a Research Engineer (Senior Staff) at Reality Labs Research, Meta, with 12 years of hands-on experience building real-time imaging systems and photorealistic telepresence for AR/VR devices. He combines applied research in computer vision and graphics with product-grade system architecture, having shipped multi-camera prototypes, runtime-efficient models, and novel 3D telepresence experiences. His academic work at Carnegie Mellon and IISc spans dense face-mesh reconstruction, deep priors for inverse imaging, and domain-adaptive depth estimation, including publications and conference spotlight recognition. Anuj is also a practical engineer who has led product teams and mentored interns, and a long-time FOSS contributor who brings tooling and reproducibility sensibilities to research code. He thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge vision algorithms and deployable systems, optimizing for model efficiency and real-time performance on constrained devices.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Delhi Public School - Vasant Kunj
Master of Science - MS, Computer Vision, Master of Science - MS, Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi