Richard Newcombe - VP, Research Science at Meta

Richard Newcombe

VP, Research Science at Meta

Greater Seattle Area United States

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Richard Newcombe is a VP of Research Science at Meta leading machine perception for AR and contextualized AI, with 15 years of experience spanning research, startups, and productization. He co-founded Surreal Vision and has driven end-to-end SLAM, localization, and environment-understanding systems from prototype devices to scalable device-edge-cloud services for next-generation AR glasses. His background includes a PhD in Computer Vision from Imperial College London and research roles at University of Washington and Microsoft Research, blending deep academic rigor with pragmatic engineering. Richard is a hands-on contributor to open-source tooling for visual systems, including substantive work on the well-known Pangolin library for realtime OpenGL visualization and video I/O. He operates at the intersection of hardware prototyping, calibration/benchmarking, and full-stack perception software, unusual for an executive-level researcher. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he actively recruits engineers and scientists to build production-ready AR platforms.

15 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

University of Essex

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Vision at Imperial College London

Github Skills (8)

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

computer-graphics10

opengl10

platform-independent9

multiplatform9

cross-platform9

software-design8

Programming languages (1)

C++

Github contributions (2)

stevenlovegrove/Pangolin

Nov 2010 - May 2017

Pangolin is a lightweight portable rapid development library for managing OpenGL display / interaction and abstracting video input.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:40 commits in 6 years 6 months

Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Pangolin library, focusing on the OpenGL display and interaction management aspects, based on the commits. They implemented new features like viewport locking and refactored view methods for the `pangolin` project. Furthermore, the user worked on examples, demonstrating image display functionality and related functionalities such as setting camera projection matrices. The code changes involved modifications to core `pangolin` library files, specifically relating to viewport management and display handling.

interactionrapid-developmentc-plus-plusraycastingopengl

RichardNewcombe/SlowMotion

Apr 2011 - Apr 2011

Contributions:3 commits in 1 day

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