David Whitney

Research Scientist at Facebook

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

About

I am a programmer and builder. I love to create novel experiences for those around me.

Experience

  • Research Scientist at Meta
    Aug 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Designed LLM based conversational agents, built VR telepresence software, added core features to HzOS, and now tech lead for Horizon Worlds

  • PhD Candidate - Computer Science & Robotics at Humans To Robots Lab, Brown University
    Aug 2014 - Jun 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Research in the area of augmented reality and virtual reality based human robot collaboration.

  • Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Research at Amazon
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2017 · 6 mos

    Improved deep reinforcement learning based dialog manager for conversational Alexa skills.

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Mobile Robotics Lab, McGill Univeristy
    Mar 2013 - May 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Maintain and upgrade ROS enabled robots, convert lab packages from rosbuild build system to catkin based build system.