#45ResearcherFoundation Models & LLMs

Ashish Vaswani

NVIDIA / Essential AI (founder)

Specialties

TransformersLLMs

Location

India/USA

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Southern California (2014).

Links & Profiles

Website Scholar

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Bio Influence

AIChatGPT Perplexity Gemini

Biography

Lead author of Attention Is All You Need, the architecture behind all modern LLMs. Reportedly joined NVIDIA with the Essential AI team in June 2026 to work on Nemotron open models.

Key Influence

Lead author of 'Attention Is All You Need', the single most impactful paper in modern AI history.

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