Co-founder and CEO / Essential AI
Ashish Vaswani is a prominent computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known as one of the co-inventors of the Transformer neural network architecture, which is foundational to modern large language models like GPT. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Essential AI, a company focused on developing powerful AI to enhance human-machine partnership. Prior to this, he was a Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Adept AI Labs and spent several years as a Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain.


Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist


Staff Research Scientist


Computer Scientist


Graduate Research Assistant


Summer Research Intern


Summer Research Intern


Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)


Master's degree
Bachelor's degree