Niki Parmar

Co-inventor of the transformer architecture

  • Co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" (2017) while a researcher at Google Brain.
  • Contributed to research on image generation and self-attention mechanisms for computer vision.
  • Co-founded Adept AI alongside fellow transformer co-author Ashish Vaswani.

Niki Parmar is a computer scientist who was a researcher at Google Brain. She co-authored the groundbreaking transformer paper and contributed to extending attention mechanisms to computer vision tasks. She later co-founded Adept AI, working on AI agents capable of performing actions in software.

Milestones

  • The Architecture That Ate AI
    The Deep Learning Revolution Research
    The Architecture That Ate AI

    A team at Google introduced the Transformer, a deceptively simple attention-based model that would become the foundation of virtually every major AI breakthrough that followed.

    2017