Natalia Vassilieva
VP & Field CTO, ML at Cerebras Systems
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNatalia Vassilieva is a seasoned ML and systems leader with a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, currently serving as VP & Field CTO, ML at Cerebras Systems in Palo Alto. Over a 20+-year career spanning research labs and industry, she has bridged deep technical research and product leadership—advancing performance modeling, Memory Driven Computing concepts, and ML system products. At Cerebras she progressed rapidly from senior product roles to executive technical leadership, shaping software and hardware co-design for large-scale deep learning. Previously she led software and AI research at Hewlett Packard Labs, publishing and teaching while mentoring teams and students. Natalia combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on product delivery, uniquely fluent in both low-level systems performance and high-level ML product strategy. Her background as a lecturer and organizer underscores a knack for translating complex research into practical, deployable ML systems.
3 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics Computer Science Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics Computer Science Information Technology at Saint Petersburg State University
English, French, RussianProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Cerebras/modelzoo
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
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