Kishore V.

Kishore V. is a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, with a focus on character capabilities related to brain and language, from August 2023 to March 2025. Previously, Kishore worked at Facebook from July 2019 to February 2023 as a Technical Lead Manager and Staff Research Engineer, specializing in Machine Learning, Human Pose Estimation, and Animation at Oculus. Kishore's earlier experience includes serving as a Graduate Student Researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, where collaboration with Dr. Ari Shapiro led to the development of a pipeline for rapid avatar generation and facial detail creation from May 2018 to May 2019. Additionally, Kishore held a position as a Gameplay and Physics Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA) from September 2014 to August 2017, working on animation architecture for NHL and mitigating issues related to fighter animations at UFC as a Software Engineering Intern. Kishore holds a Master in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Southern California and a Master’s of Digital Media in Game and Interactive Media Design from The Centre for Digital Media.