Full Name

Ashish Vaswani

Job Title

CEO & Founder

Company

Essential AI

Speaker Bio

Dr. Ashish Vaswani is a Computer Scientist and Co-Founder and CEO of Essential.ai. In a scientific career spanning over a decade, he has made several important contributions to Deep Learning and AI. In the seminal paper "Attention is all you need," he co-invented the Transformer model, a vital component of modern AI systems. His work on Language Models in 2013 was among the first successful results of deep learning in language processing. His work, across fields from language to biology, has over 200,000 citations. He got his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. After 7 years in academia and Google Brain, he co-founded Adept AI Labs, the first company to democratize AI tool use. At Essential, Dr. Vaswani is pushing a new frontier for AI models with an Open Science philosophy.