Viswanath (Vish) Sivakumar

I’m an AI research scientist and an engineer. I’m currently exploring something new and ambitious.

Previously, I was at Meta for 13 years. From 2020-2025, I was a research lead in the Neural Interfaces Group at Meta Reality Labs pioneering human-AI input using wrist electromyography (EMG), with a specific focus on decoding handwriting and typing. My work culminated in the launch of the Meta Neural Band, the first ever general-purpose consumer neural interface product, with a live demo by Mark Zuckerberg, and has been published in Nature and NeurIPS. Prior to neural interfaces, I worked at Meta AI (FAIR) on vision, reinforcement learning, and ML systems.

I have had the good fortune of getting to experience living in SF, NYC, and London during my 20s. I currently reside in NYC.