Rob Fergus
Director of AI Research & Head of FAIR, Meta
Organization
Meta
Position
Director of AI Research & Head of FAIR, Meta
Intelligence Briefing
Co-founded FAIR in 2014 alongside Yann LeCun. Returned to Meta in May 2025 from Google DeepMind (where he was Research Director for ~5 years) to replace Joelle Pineau as head of FAIR. Also holds a professorship at NYU's Courant Institute. FAIR under his leadership focuses on long-term fundamental AI research.
BA/MEng, Electrical and Information Engineering — University of Cambridge
MSc, Electrical Engineering — Caltech
DPhil, Electrical Engineering — University of Oxford
AGI Position Assessment
Unknown
Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.
Primarily capability-focused public profile; safety posture here is inferred from frontier-model development and launch-readiness work rather than standalone public advocacy.
Source Material
Dossier last updated: 2026-03-10