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Tengyu Ma
Member of Technical Staff
New YorkAMI Labs
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Biography

Tengyu Ma is a Member of Technical Staff at AMI Labs, where he works on advanced artificial intelligence research. Before joining AMI Labs in June 2026, he spent more than five years as a Staff Research Scientist at Meta FAIR, contributing to research in visual grounding, perception, localization and reasoning. His work included projects such as Muse Spark, SAM 2, SAM 3, PE, and PLM.

Ma earned a PhD in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, where he also worked as a graduate research assistant, following a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Wuhan University. His expertise spans artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning.

Career History
2021 - 2026
Meta
Staff Research Scientist
Key Papers
We present Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), a foundation model towards solving promptable visual segmentation in images and videos. We build a data engine, which improves model and data via user interaction, to collect the largest video segmentation dataset to date. Our model is a simple transformer architecture with streaming memory for real-time video processing. SAM 2 trained on our data provides strong performance across a wide range of tasks. In video segmentation, we observe better accuracy, using 3x fewer interactions than prior approaches. In image segmentation, our model is more accurate and 6x faster than the Segment Anything Model (SAM). We believe that our data, model, and insights will serve as a significant milestone for video segmentation and related perception tasks. We are releasing our main model, the dataset, an interactive demo and code.
2025 · International Conference on Learning Representations 2025 (ICLR 2025)
5,385 citations
More Publications (top 5 by citations)
2023 · International Conference on Learning Representations
319 citations
2023 · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
105 citations