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Carnegie Mellon honors Vikas Chandra with alumni award
The annual Alumni Awards recognize those who make an impact in the industry and on the college.
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Rwittika Chakraborty - Fri, 20, Mar 2026
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Vikas Chandra, a senior director at Meta Reality Labs / engineering.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering has named Vikas Chandra among the recipients of its 2026 Alumni Awards, recognizing his contributions to artificial intelligence and next-generation computing.
The annual Alumni Awards recognize those who make an impact in the industry and on the college and are listed in five categories, including the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, Alumni Service Excellence Award, Recent Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, Recent Alumni Service Excellence Award and Lifetime Impact Award.
Chandra, a senior director at Meta Reality Labs, received the Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, an honor given to graduates who have demonstrated exceptional professional accomplishments, leadership, and made contributions that have positively impacted society.
At Meta Reality Labs, Chandra leads an AI research team building efficient on-device AI for the company’s mixed-reality products, including AI glasses.
His team’s work enables these wearables to comprehend context and take meaningful action, reactively or proactively.
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These devices perceive the world as the wearer does, using context to anticipate requirements and reduce cognitive load, making them foundational technology for the next generation of human-device interaction.
Prior to joining Meta in 2018, Chandra was director of applied machine learning at Arm Research, where his team helped pioneer TinyML, a new field of machine learning that allows AI to run on small, resource-constrained devices.
Chandra earned his Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
He has also served as a visiting scholar (2011–2014) and a visiting faculty member (2016–2017) in the electrical engineering department at Stanford University. He has authored more than 200 research papers and is an inventor on more than 40 U.S. and international patents.
In recognition of his technical leadership, Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in 2017.
He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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