Birla Institute of Technology Mesra
University of Southern California
Mostofa PatwaryDirector of Large Foundational Language Model · NVIDIAResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Ashish Vaswani
NVIDIAComputer Scientist, Open Source Models
🇮🇳 IndianBorn 1986
Vaswani co-invented the Transformer, the neural-network design behind ChatGPT and much of modern generative AI.[1] As first author of “Attention Is All You Need” (2017), he helped show how AI could learn relationships between words while training faster—a breakthrough that enabled far larger language models.[2]
Career & education
Current roleNVIDIAJun 2026-presentComputer Scientist, Open Source Models
NVIDIAJun 2026-presentPreviously
Essential AIDec 2022-Jun 2026Co-founder and CEO
Adept AIJan 2022-Nov 2022Co-founder and Chief Scientist
Google BrainJul 2016-Nov 2021Staff Research Scientist
Essential AIDec 2022-Jun 2026Adept AIJan 2022-Nov 2022Google BrainJul 2016-Nov 2021Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations337,108As of Nov 1, '26
citations+8,135Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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Selected contributions
Attention Is All You Need
With Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser and Illia PolosukhinThe Transformer uses attention to translate text while allowing faster training.
References
- How USC alumni helped pave the way for ChatGPTviterbischool.usc.edu
USC Viterbi traces Vaswani’s work on the Transformer and explains how the architecture became a foundation for ChatGPT.
- Attention Is All You Need — original Transformer paperarxiv.org
As first author of “Attention Is All You Need” (2017), he helped show how AI could learn relationships between words while training faster—a breakthrough that enabled far larger language models.
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