People
People at NVIDIA
43 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at NVIDIA; 31 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Aaron Lefohn
Vice President of Graphics Research
Vice President of Graphics Research at NVIDIA; leads the Real-Time Rendering Research team
Azita Martin
Leads the retail team, responsible for global go-to-market strategy
Listed by NVIDIA in 2025 as VP and general manager for retail and consumer packaged goods
Bill Dally
Chief scientist and senior vice president of NVIDIA Research
Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair
Boris Ginsburg
Applied research scientist
NVIDIA applied research scientist; last-listed author on Parakeet speech recognition papers
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA; co-author of the Megatron-LM and cuDNN papers
Dan Su
Research scientist (large language model pretraining)
NVIDIA research scientist working on LLM pretraining; co-lead author of the Nemotron-CC dataset paper
David Luebke
Runs a research group in NVIDIA Research focused on computer graphics and neural image synthesis
Helped found NVIDIA Research in 2006; runs a research group on computer graphics and neural image synthesis
Gavriel State
Senior Director for Simulation and AI
Senior Director for Simulation and AI at NVIDIA, heading the team behind Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab
Ian Buck
Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing
Vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA; described by NVIDIA as the inventor of CUDA
Jeff Bolz
Distinguished Engineer
NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer and member of llama.cpp's Vulkan backend code-owner team
Jensen Huang
Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
NVIDIA co-founder and CEO who led the company that introduced the GPU and helped spark the modern AI era
Jim Fan
Senior Research Scientist and Lead of the AI Agents Initiative; co-lead of the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group, with Yuke Zhu
Co-leads NVIDIA's GEAR embodied-agents group; co-author of GR00T N1, Voyager and Eureka
Jonathan Cohen
Credited in Nemotron 3 leadership (December 2025) and Nemotron 3 Super contributors (April 2026)
NVIDIA AI software leader who led NeMo development; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Kari Briski
VP, AI Software Product Management
VP of AI software product management at NVIDIA; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Kezhi Kong
Research scientist, foundation model team, Applied Deep Learning Research (ADLR)
NVIDIA research scientist on the ADLR foundation model team; co-first author of Nemotron-CC
Miika Aittala
Member of NVIDIA Research (joined November 2019)
Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers
Ming-Yu Liu
Vice President of Cosmos Lab (Vice President of Research)
Vice President of Cosmos Lab at NVIDIA; supervised the Cosmos3 world model family
Piotr Bialecki
Manages the PyTorch team at NVIDIA (joined the team in 2019)
PyTorch core maintainer who manages NVIDIA's PyTorch team and its work on the CUDA backend
Rama Akkiraju
Vice president of AI for IT
Vice president of AI for IT at NVIDIA; former IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations
Rev Lebaredian
Vice president of physical AI simulation
NVIDIA vice president of physical AI simulation, heading the Omniverse product, engineering and research teams
Richard Kerris
Industry general manager for media and entertainment
Industry general manager for media and entertainment at NVIDIA; former CTO of Lucasfilm
Samuli Laine
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007; first author of nvdiffrast and co-author of StyleGAN and EDM
Sanja Fidler
Vice President of AI Research (from March 2022; earlier Director of AI and Sr. Director of AI)
University of Toronto associate professor, Vector Institute co-founder and NVIDIA VP of AI Research
Simon See
Senior Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head, NVIDIA AI Technology Center
Global Head of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center and Chief Solution Architect at NVIDIA
Song Han
Research Director (leads the Efficient AI team)
MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM
Tero Karras
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research; primary author of the StyleGAN models
Tianqi Chen
Distinguished Engineer
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Tim Costa
Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line
VP and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA; earlier led product management for NVIDIA HPC software
Tsung-Yi Lin
Principal research scientist, NVIDIA Research
Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author
Alexander Amini
Deep learning researcher on the end-to-end driving team (June–August 2017) (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Liquid AI; lead organizer of MIT 6.S191 Intro to Deep Learning
Anima Anandkumar
Senior director of AI research (joined in 2018 as director of machine learning research) (earlier role)
Bren Professor at Caltech; Fourier Neural Operator co-author; former NVIDIA senior director of AI research
Bratin Saha
Vice President of Software Infrastructure (earlier role)
Former AWS vice president for AI, machine learning and data infrastructure services
Chip Huyen
ML tooling; core developer of NeMo (earlier role)
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Clément Farabet
Vice President of AI Infrastructure (2022 NVIDIA blog post) (earlier role)
VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Gemma 4 core contributor; formerly NVIDIA's VP of AI infrastructure
Dieter Fox
Joined NVIDIA Research in 2017 to start its Robotics Research Lab, which Fox then led (earlier role)
UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017
Jiaming Song
Research scientist (earlier role)
Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research
Jiaxuan You
Senior Research Scientist (earlier role)
UIUC assistant professor who leads U Lab, the group that maintains the LLMRouter routing library
Manuvir Das
Head of Enterprise Computing (earlier role)
Stonepeak operating partner; as NVIDIA's Head of Enterprise Computing, launched NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Natalia Gimelshein
Listed with NVIDIA as an author of the 2019 PyTorch paper (earlier role)
PyTorch core maintainer for CUDA; co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers
Yangqing Jia
VP, building AI for system software and cloud services for AI (earlier role)
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Yejin Choi
Senior Research Director and Distinguished Research Scientist (earlier role)
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
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