David Whitney

David Whitney is a research scientist at Meta, specializing in large language model-based conversational agents and virtual reality technologies. David's experience includes serving as a PhD candidate at Brown University, focusing on augmented and virtual reality for human-robot collaboration, as well as an applied scientist intern at Amazon, enhancing deep reinforcement learning for Alexa skills. Prior roles include working as an undergraduate researcher at the Mobile Robotics Lab at McGill University, where David maintained ROS-enabled robots and transitioned lab packages to a new build system. Educational credentials include a PhD in Computer Science from Brown University and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Cognitive Science from McGill University.