Richard Newcombe

Richard Newcombe is an accomplished researcher in the field of computer vision and robotics, holding a PhD from Imperial College London. Newcombe began a career at the University of Essex as a Research Assistant working on machine consciousness before advancing to various roles in prominent organizations. Key positions include Director of Research Science at Facebook and Meta, and VP, Research Science at Meta. Additional experience includes time as a Researcher at the University of Washington, Manager and Director of Research Science at Oculus VR, and Co-Founder of Surreal Vision Ltd. Newcombe has also contributed as a Research Engineer at Swarm Systems and as a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, with foundational research conducted during a tenure at Imperial College London in cognitive robotics and robot vision.