Matthijs Douze

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | PARIS, FRANCE

Matthijs Douze has been a research scientist at the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab in Paris since November 2015. At Facebook he is working on large-scale indexing (see the Faiss library), machine learning with graphs and similarity search on images and videos. He obtained a master’s degree from the ENSEEIHT engineering school and defended his PhD at University of Toulouse in 2004. From 2005-2015 Matthijs joined the LEAR team at INRIA Grenoble where he worked on a variety of topics, including image indexing, large-scale vector indexing, event recognition in videos and similar video search. Between 2010 and 2015 he also managed Kinovis, a large 3D motion capture studio at INRIA and developed high-performance geometric algorithms for constructive solid geometry operations. In addition to FAIR’s general research topics, Matthijs is interested in snappy algorithms that process images and produce graphical results.