Julian Straub is a highly accomplished Research Scientist with a wealth of education and professional experience in the fields of AI and robotics. He has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from MIT, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Dipl. Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technische Universität München.

Currently, Julian works at Facebook's Reality Labs leading the Surreal team. His research interests involve AI and robotics, specifically in 3D machine perception, Bayesian modeling, and inference among other specialities. Julian's team is focused on developing advanced end-to-end 3D scene understanding systems that could be implemented across mobile sensor design, state estimation, computer vision, large-scale reconstruction, machine learning, and more.

Before joining Facebook Reality Labs, Julian served as an Oculus Research Scientist Intern at Facebook, in addition to software intern positions at Apple, robotic and vision engineer at Evolution Robotics, working student positions at KUKA Roboter, and PhD studies at MIT.