Pooya Jannaty
Director, Generative AI & World Models
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolPooya Jannaty is a Director of Generative AI and World Models at NVIDIA with a Ph.D. from Brown University and a rare blend of deep scientific rigor and production-focused engineering. He has led cross-functional teams building multimodal foundation models, diffusion-based generative systems, synthetic data pipelines, and large-scale training infrastructure. His background in robotics, quantum device simulation, and numerical PDE solvers informs a systems-level approach to scalable ML and intelligent simulation. Pooya has driven ML infrastructure and compiler work (TensorFlow/OpenXLA) and operationalized research from Waymo and Cruise into production-grade planning and prediction systems. Known for bridging research and product, he mentors engineers to ship complex models while keeping performance and numerical fidelity front and center. Based in Mountain View, he brings both low-level C++/CUDA expertise and high-level PyTorch model leadership to accelerate next-generation AI platforms.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering at Brown University
English
Github Skills (41)
vulkan10
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
onnx10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
cuda10
spirv9
compiler9
jax8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pjannaty/nvidia_as_trusted_partner
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningframework-learning
pjannaty/fp8-tutorial
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
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