Taha Masood
Sr. Director, Reality Labs Research Partnerships at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolTaha Masood is a seasoned technology and partnerships leader with 25+ years of experience bridging advanced photonics, optics and electronics with productization and strategic research collaborations. Currently Sr. Director for Reality Labs Research Partnerships at Meta, he directs partnerships that accelerate new material discovery using AI/ML for AR/MR, quantum and optical computing. His background ranges from founding a computational electromagnetics startup with an open-source grating-analysis toolkit to leading supply-chain and design-win efforts for HoloLens light-guides and laser pico-projectors. Taha combines deep hands-on engineering—ASICs, embedded systems and laser devices—with senior business development instincts to convert lab innovations into commercial products. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs a PhD-level technical foundation with a track record of securing cross-industry integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, research-driven partnership strategies that de-risk bold hardware and materials bets.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Electrical Engineering, M.Sc, Electrical Engineering at University of RochesterPhD, PhD at Southern Methodist UniversityBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo
Urdu, HindiGithub contributions (2)
tmasood/Grating-Analysis
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:115 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
tmasood/R-software
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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