Summary
Zijian He is a senior staff research scientist and manager at Meta, leading the Superintelligence Lab’s media foundation model initiatives. With over a decade in deep learning and computer vision, he has steered the development of foundation models for text-to-image generation and multimedia understanding. He has led high-impact projects including Movie Gen, Emu, Quest/3 depth pipelines, Facebook 3D Photos, and Ray-Ban Stories 3D capture, plus smart cropping and auto video highlights. His work continuously bridges research and production, delivering AI tech to social platforms and wearables. Based in Palo Alto, he earned a MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BS in Control Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Facebook and completed a software internship at Microsoft, reflecting a consistent track record of leadership and hands-on engineering in large-scale AI systems.
10 years of coding experience