Nikhila Ravi
I am a Research Lead in the Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) Media Research team. I co-lead the Segment Anything (SAM) team and have experience leading research and engineering orgs of 40+ people. I enjoy working across fundamental research, engineering, and building demos & products. I co-led the development of Segment Anything, SAM 2, SAM 3 which have won awards at top AI conferences and power features like Instagram Edits Cutouts, Subject Effects, Backdrop and FB Marketplace View in Room. I received my BEng and MEng with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge and spent a year at Harvard on a John F. Kennedy Scholarship. I received the Royal Academy of Engineering Young Engineer of the Year Award.
📢 Updates
- SAM 3 has been accepted to ICLR 2026
- We released SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts and the SAM Playground (link)
- SAM 3 was integrated into the Edits app to power Subject Effects (link)
- I enjoyed talking about SAM 3 on the Latent Space Podcast (link)
- SAM 2 was awarded with an ICLR 2025 Best Paper Honourable Mention Award! It was in the top 6 papers out of 11762 submissions.
- SAM 2 was integrated into the new Instagram Edits app to power the video "Cutouts" feature!
- We released SAM 2.1 checkpoints and the SAM 2 Developer Suite: full training/fine tuning code and the frontend & backend code for the SAM 2 web demo
- Enjoyed talking about all things SAM on the LatentSpace Podcast (link)
- We released the SAM 2 project from Meta AI extending SAM 1 to video. Try out our interactive web demo of SAM 2, the new SA-V dataset with ~50k new videos~, and the inference code and weights.