Ashish Vaswani — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer neural network architecture.
The Transformer model is foundational for modern NLP systems, including BERT, GPT-2, GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4.
Currently Co-Founder and CEO at Essential AI since 2022.
Co-founded Adept AI Labs, a machine learning-focused startup, in 2022.
Served as a Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain from 2016 to 2021.
Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Biography

Ashish Vaswani is an Indian computer scientist and a pivotal figure in the development of modern artificial intelligence. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Essential AI, a company he established in 2022. Vaswani is widely recognized as a co-author of the landmark 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer neural network architecture.