David Whitney
Research Scientist at Meta
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Whitney is a Research Scientist with 11 years’ experience blending robotics, AR/VR, and conversational AI to build immersive, interactive systems. At Meta he designed LLM-driven conversational agents, led VR telepresence development, contributed core features to HzOS, and now serves as tech lead for Horizon Worlds. His PhD work at Brown and prior roles at Amazon and McGill emphasize human-robot collaboration and applied reinforcement learning for dialog, giving him a rare combination of deep research rigor and product-focused engineering. Based in the UK, he enjoys creating novel user experiences and translating academic advances into production-quality, social VR platforms. An under-the-radar strength is his end-to-end fluency across robotics middleware (ROS), ML models, and large-scale social VR systems, enabling rapid iteration from prototype to deployed feature.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Brown UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Cognitive Science at McGill University
English
Github Skills (50)
ros10
dotnet9
csharp9
unity3d9
gnu8
kinect-v27
mdp7
hololens7
scanning7
operating-system7
kinect6
openbsd6
freebsd6
processing-ide5
linux5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
h2r/ros_reality_tmp
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:78 commits, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
particularcsharpunityrosunity3d
h2r/ros_reality_bridge
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
Bridge to connect ROS network to Unity
Contributions:44 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
ros
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