Viswanath (Vish) Sivakumar

I’m an AI research scientist and an engineer. I’m currently building something new and ambitious with an incredible team.

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

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