Viswanath (Vish) Sivakumar
seasonedschemer.bsky.social
Viswanath (Vish) Sivakumar
@seasonedschemer.bsky.social
ML and neural interfaces research, Meta Reality Labs
Wrapped up several of @srushnlp.bsky.social's puzzles over recent weekends. RASPy (and the original RASP language) was particularly elegant.
April 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We're hiring!

Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️

We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.
February 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We published a brief white paper about surface EMG as a technology and its potential as a new and powerful human-computer input paradigm.

www.meta.com/blog/quest/s...
Human-Computer Input via an sEMG Wristband | Meta Quest Blog
Today, we’re releasing a white paper that provides background on sEMG, describes its potential as a new input paradigm for human-computer interaction, and explains how sEMG sensing and its device inpu...
www.meta.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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January 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Live demos are hard, letting anyone try out the demo is harder. Hardware makes all of this doubly so.

Thank you to everyone who dropped by our posters, engaged in discussions, and tried out the surface EMG demo. We were humbled by the interest! #NeurIPS2024
December 14, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.

We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!
Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing
We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
ai.meta.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM