Career
Co-Founder and CEO
Pushing the frontier of human machine partnership
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Computer Science
Skills
Core technical, research, and leadership competencies in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Technical & Research
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Neural Networks
Algorithms
Statistical Machine Translation
Computer Vision
AI Expertise
Transformer Architecture
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Deep Learning
Pattern Recognition
System Design
Leadership & Business
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Planning
Team Leadership
Product Vision
Venture Capital
Domains
Primary
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Secondary
Enterprise Software, Deep Learning Research, AI Agents
Tags
Personality
Visionary, Pioneering, Research-Driven, Entrepreneurial
Focus
Foundational AI, Open Science, Human-Machine Partnership
Frequently Asked Questions
Ashish Vaswani is an AI researcher and entrepreneur best known as a lead author of the Transformer paper and the CEO of Essential AI.
He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Essential AI, a company focused on human-machine partnership, which he started in December 2022.
He served as a Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain for over five years, from July 2016 until November 2021.
Yes, he co-founded Adept AI Labs in January 2022, serving there briefly before founding Essential AI later that year.
His LinkedIn profile has 34.3K followers, and his Twitter/X account has 28.7K followers.