Carl Ren
Senior Director, Research Engineering at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Ren is a Senior Director of Research Engineering at Meta’s Reality Labs leading the Surreal Incubation Team, where he shepherds hardware-software co-design and end-to-end systems for egocentric machine perception and always-on contextualized AI. With a PhD in Robotics and Computer Vision from Oxford and over a decade of experience across industry and academia, he has incubated and transitioned multiple VR/AR technologies into product—contributing to Project Aria and future all-day AR platforms. Previously he drove real-time mobile VR/AR content R&D at Fyusion and held research roles at Oxford and Microsoft, blending deep research rigor with product-focused engineering. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs prototyping fluency in sensing and 3D reconstruction with a track record of shipping integrated systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics, Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics, Computer Vision at University of OxfordBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
computer-vision3
pixel3
segmentation3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
carlren/gMF
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits in 2 days
carlren/gSLICr
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
gSLICr: Real-time super-pixel segmentation
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
real-timecomputer-visionpixelsegmentation
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