Viswanath (Vish) Sivakumar

I’m an AI research scientist and an engineer. I also dabble in neuroscience. 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 where I co-created the Meta Neural Band. This is the first neural interface to achieve out-of-the-box generalization across users, and the first to ship as a consumer product. I co-founded and led research behind text input using wrist electromyography (EMG), some of which is published in Nature and NeurIPS.

Before that, 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.