Tanya Jonker

Tanya Jonker, PhD, is a Senior Manager of Research Science at Meta, where responsibilities include managing a diverse team focused on human interaction with AI and developing long-term research strategies. Previously, Tanya Jonker led the Adaptive Interaction team at Meta's Reality Labs Research and worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs, developing computational models and augmented reality systems. Academic experience includes a Postdoctoral Researcher role at the University of California, Davis, leading research on human cognition, and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Waterloo, where Tanya Jonker authored 14 journal articles and received accolades for teaching excellence.