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Pavlo Molchanov

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Director of Research at NVIDIA
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Pavlo Molchanov is the Director of Research at NVIDIA, where he leads the Deep Learning Efficiency Research team. His work focuses on making Large Language and Vision Models more efficient through compression, novel architectures, and adaptive inference, contributing to models like NVIDIA Nemotron. He earned his PhD from the University of Tampere.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director of Research
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Efficient AI Models
Leads NVIDIA's Deep Learning Efficiency Research team, with a primary focus on LLM and VLM efficiency, model compression, and novel architecture design.
Open Model Collaboration
Actively contributes to and expresses pride in NVIDIA's open model releases, such as Nemotron Nano, emphasizing the importance of open collaboration in the AI community.
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Career

Work history

12-2024
Director of Research
NVIDIA
6-2023 - 12-2024
Distinguished Scientist and Manager
NVIDIA
2-2020 - 6-2023
Principal Research Scientist and Research Lead
NVIDIA
4-2010 - 1-2015
Researcher, PhD student
Tampere University of Technology
1-2014 - 7-2014
Research Intern
NVIDIA
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Education
5-2010 - 11-2015
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of Tampere 1925-2018
2008 - 2010
Master's Degree
National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'​
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