Wasi Ahmad
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWasi Ahmad is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience advancing generative AI and large language models, currently leading applied research at NVIDIA on code generation, mathematical reasoning, long-context understanding, and model robustness. He previously helped build ML-powered developer productivity features at AWS’s Amazon Q and has a strong academic foundation from a PhD at UCLA and an MS from University of Virginia. His background spans industrial research internships at Meta, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Walmart Global Tech, giving him a rare blend of production-oriented engineering and deep NLP research. Known for turning foundational model innovations into practical product improvements, he is based in California and brings both teaching experience and real-world systems engineering to complex AI challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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speech-recognition
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Github Skills (159)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
examine10
representation-learning10
ctc10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wasiahmad/AVATAR
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Official code of our work, AVATAR: A Parallel Corpus for Java-Python Program Translation.
Contributions:11 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
programming-languageprogramming-language-translatorrepresentation-learningtranslation-model
wasiahmad/paraphrase_identification
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 7 months
nlpmeaningexaminetextualdetermine
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