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Researcher

Roman Rädle

Also known as Roman Raedle

Roman Rädle is a researcher whose path runs from human-computer interaction to Meta's Segment Anything models for images and video. His 2017 dissertation at the University of Konstanz studied spatial and cross-device interactions and covers HuddleLamp, a low-cost sensing technology that tracks mobile devices on a table. In 2018, he left a postdoc at Aarhus University's Centre for Digital Creativity for an assistant professorship in its Computer Science Department. At Meta FAIR he was a core contributor to SAM 2 in 2024, which received an Honorable Mention among the Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2025, and in November 2025 he co-authored SAM 3 under the affiliation Meta Superintelligence Labs.

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Timeline

  1. 2017

    A dissertation on cross-device interaction

    He defends his dissertation, Designing UbiComp Experiences for Spatial Navigation and Cross-Device Interactions, at the University of Konstanz in January 2017. The thesis covers HuddleLamp, a low-cost sensing technology that tracks multiple mobile devices on a table, and the Blended Shelf and Integrative Workplace prototypes for library knowledge work.

  2. 2018

    Assistant professor at Aarhus

    In 2018, he moves from a postdoc at Aarhus University's Centre for Digital Creativity, which ends in December 2018, to an assistant professorship in the university's Computer Science Department. His work there focuses on tools for education that work across a user's device ecology.

  3. 2024

    SAM 2 at Meta FAIR

    In 2024, he is one of 18 authors of SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos, with a Meta FAIR affiliation as a core contributor. The foundation model for promptable visual segmentation comes with a data engine that collects the largest video segmentation dataset to date. In image segmentation, it is more accurate and 6x faster than the original Segment Anything Model.

  4. 2025

    ICLR 2025 honorable mention

    SAM 2 receives an Honorable Mention among the Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2025, one of 3 honorable mentions chosen from an initial pool of 36 papers.

  5. November 2025

    SAM 3 and concept prompts

    In November 2025, he is among the 38 authors of SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts, a unified model that detects, segments and tracks objects in images and videos from concept prompts such as short noun phrases or image exemplars. His affiliation is Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Career

  1. From 2025Meta Superintelligence Labs
  2. From 2024FAIR (Meta)Core contributor
  3. 2018Aarhus UniversityPostdoctoral researcher, Assistant Professor

Education

  1. 2017University of KonstanzPhD

From the biography.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Roman Rädle. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Meta. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Meta Superintelligence Labs. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Meta Superintelligence Labs. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Designing UbiComp Experiences for Spatial Navigation and Cross-Device Interactions (KOPS, Universität Konstanz) kops.uni-konstanz.de. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Roman Rädle is leaving the CDC digitalcreativity.au.dk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (arXiv abstract) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (arXiv HTML) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Announcing the Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2025 blog.iclr.cc. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts (arXiv abstract) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts (arXiv HTML) arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.