Sunny Ye
- Material Scientist, Meta
Sunny Ye is a material scientist and tech-lead manager in Reality Lab Research in Meta. She is passionate to innovate breakthrough material for AR/VR and robotics to open the design space for the applications through internal research and external partnership.
Ye obtained her PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder in Chris Bowman’s team in 2011 with the focus of photopolymerization. The same year, she joined the 3M Corporate Research Process Lab to continue photo-curing related projects. In 2016, Ye shifted from research lab to Automotive Aftermarket Division inside 3M to pursue the research to product path.
In 2019, Sunny joined Meta (previous Oculus, Facebook) for novel material research to resolve optical problems, thermal, and weight challenges in AR/VR and robotics space. She and her team are pursuing AI/ML material discovery incorporated with in-house bench work and external scaleup to accelerate new material commercialization.