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Ashish VaswaniAshish Vaswani

Ashish Vaswani

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.

Ph.D., University of Southern California
United States
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Transformer Architecture
Key Invention
2 (Essential AI, Adept)
Companies Founded
5+ years
Years at Google Brain
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Work Experience

Essential AIEssential AI
Essential AI

Co-Founder and CEO

Dec 2022 - Present
Responsibilities
Pushing the frontier of human machine partnership
A
Adept AI Labs

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Position
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Google BrainGoogle Brain
Google Brain

Staff Research Scientist

Jul 2016 - Nov 2021
Responsibilities
At Google Brain
Information Sciences InstituteInformation Sciences Institute
Information Sciences Institute

Computer Scientist

Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Position
Computer Scientist
University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern California
University of Southern California

Graduate Research Assistant

May 2008 - May 2014
Position
Graduate Research Assistant
GoogleGoogle
Google

Summer Research Intern

May 2013 - Aug 2013
Position
Summer Research Intern
IBMIBM
IBM

Summer Research Intern

May 2011 - Aug 2011
Position
Summer Research Intern

Education

University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern California
University of Southern California

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

2006 - 2014
Field of Study
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Computer Science
University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern California
University of Southern California

Master's degree

2004 - 2006
Field of Study
Master's degree - Computer Science
B
Birla Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree

1998 - 2002
Field of Study
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science and Engineering

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