University of Southern California
Song HanResearcher
NVIDIA
Distinguished Scientist
via NVIDIA
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Ashish Vaswani
Computer Scientist, Open Source Models at NVIDIA
Vaswani was first author of “Attention Is All You Need,” the 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer—the architecture that made modern large language models possible.
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Background
Current role
Computer Scientist, Open Source Models Jun 2026-presentNVIDIA
NVIDIAPreviously
Dec 2022-Jun 2026Co-founder and CEO, 
Essential AI
Essential AIJan 2022-Nov 2022Co-founder and Chief Scientist, 
Adept AI
Adept AIJul 2016-Nov 2021Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
Born1986
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