Ashish Jaiswal

About

I am a Research Scientist at Meta on the Facebook Feed & Notifications AI team. My work focuses on content understanding using large language models — building pipelines that generate signals for content categorization, quality assessment, and retrieval across Facebook.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at UT Arlington in 2023, specializing in self-supervised learning, multimodal fusion, and human-computer interaction. My research has been cited 3k+ times across 15+ publications.

News and Updates

• Jan 2024 Joined Meta as Research Scientist, AI Systems — Facebook Feed & Notifications AI team
• Dec 2023 Successfully defended PhD dissertation at UT Arlington
• Jun 2023 Session Chair and Presenter at HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
• May 2022 Interned at Meta - Audio Video Understanding team (Reels trends system)
• Apr 2022 Received John S. Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, UT Arlington
• Aug 2019 Started PhD in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington
• Sep 2018 Graduated with B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

1. Jaiswal, A., Babu, A.R., Zadeh, M.Z., Banerjee, D., Makedon, F. “A Survey on Contrastive Self-supervised Learning.” Technologies 9(1), 2020. 2,304 citations [pdf]
2. Jaiswal, A., Zadeh, M.Z., Hebri, A., Babu, A.R., Makedon, F. “A Smart Sensor Suit (SSS) to Assess Cognitive and Physical Fatigue with Machine Learning.” HCII, 2023. 28 citations [pdf]
3. Jaiswal, A., Babu, A.R., Zadeh, M.Z., Makedon, F., Wylie, G. “Detecting Cognitive Fatigue in Subjects with Traumatic Brain Injury from FMRI Scans Using Self-Supervised Learning.” PETRA, 2023. 15 citations [pdf]
4. Jaiswal, A., Hebri, A., Pavel, H.R., Zadeh, M.Z., Makedon, F. “SmartFunction: An Immersive VR System to Assess Attention Using Embodied Cognition.” PETRA, 2023. 3 citations [pdf]
5. Jaiswal, A., Nale, G., An, Q., Pavel, H.R., Karim, E., Acharya, S., Makedon, F. “An Assistive Robotic System for Cognitive State Assessment in Spinal Cord Injury.” PETRA, 2024. 1 citation [pdf]
6. Doolani, S., Wessels, C., Kanal, V., Jaiswal, A., et al. “A Review of Extended Reality (XR) Technologies for Manufacturing Training.” Technologies 8(4), 2020. 502 citations [pdf]
7. Karim, E., Pavel, H.R., Nikanfar, S., Jaiswal, A., et al. “Examining the Landscape of Cognitive Fatigue Detection: A Comprehensive Survey.” Technologies 12(3), 2024. 40 citations [pdf]
8. Farahanipad, F.*, Nambiappan, H.R.*, Jaiswal, A., Kyrarini, M., Makedon, F. “HAND-REHA: Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Game-based Wrist Rehabilitation.” PETRA, 2020. 19 citations [pdf]
9. Kapoor, R., Jaiswal, A., Makedon, F. “Light-weight Seated Posture Guidance System with Machine Learning and Computer Vision.” PETRA, 2022. 24 citations [pdf]
10. Zadeh, M.Z., Babu, A.R., Jaiswal, A., Kyrarini, M., Makedon, F. “Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition by Augmenting Generative Adversarial Networks.” PETRA, 2021. 20 citations [pdf]

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