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Surya Teja Appini

Surya Teja Appini

Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead at Meta

San Francisco, California, United States

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Surya Appini is a Senior Staff Engineer and Architect at Meta Reality Labs, where he leads the architecture, training, and deployment of LLM-powered multimodal AI assistant systems for wearables, including AI smart glasses, Quest devices, and next-generation AR platforms. His work spans end-to-end system design, covering model training and integration, low-latency inference, reliability, privacy, and global production deployment at scale.

Previously, Surya was a founding engineer and technical lead for Microsoft Teams, where he helped architect and scale core real-time messaging, calling, and collaboration systems from initial launch to worldwide adoption across enterprise and consumer users.

Surya holds a Bachelors (Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras and a Masters in Computer Science from University of Washington. He is an active reviewer and judge for top AI conferences and hackathons, contributing to the research and developer community through peer review and technical mentorship.

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Area of Expertise

  • Consumer Goods & Services
  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • LLMs
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Using AI and LLMs
  • Wearables
  • Smart Glasses
  • AI Assistants
  • voice assistants
  • Multimodal AI
  • MCP
  • AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems
  • Multi-Agents System
  • RAG
  • Agentic
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Personalization
  • AI Personalization
  • Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Artificial Intelligence

Surya Teja Appini

Senior Staff Engineer, Technical Lead at Meta

San Francisco, California, United States

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