Scholar
Ali Hassani
Google Scholar ID: Ndu0dUcAAAAJ
NVIDIA
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,276
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
15
Co-authors
10
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Generalized Neighborhood Attention: Multi-dimensional Sparse Attention at the Speed of Light (Preprint); 2024: Faster Neighborhood Attention: Reducing the O(n^2) Cost of Self Attention at the Threadblock Level, NeurIPS 2024; 2023: Neighborhood Attention Transformer, CVPR 2023; 2022: Dilated Neighborhood Attention Transformer (Preprint).
Research Experience
- Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, Deep Imagination, since 10/2025; Graduate Researcher at SHI Labs, Georgia Tech, 01/2024 - 10/2025; Research Intern at NVIDIA Research, Deep Imagination, 12/2024 - 07/2025; Software Performance Engineering Intern at NVIDIA, CUTLASS, 05/2024 - 08/2024; Software Engineering Intern at HippoML, 06/2023 - 12/2023; Graduate Researcher at SHI Labs, University of Oregon, 03/2021 - 12/2023; Research Intern at Picsart AI Research, 06/2022 - 09/2022; Undergraduate Researcher at University of Kerman, Mahani Mathematical Research Center, 2019 to 2021.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, 2024 - 2026 (expected), Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Humphrey Shi; M.S. in Computer Science, 2021-2023, University of Oregon, advised by Prof. Humphrey Shi; B.S. in Computer Science, 2016-2020, University of Kerman, research advisor: Prof. Abbas Salemi.
Background
- A Research Scientist at NVIDIA's Deep Imagination Research Group. My primary research area is High-Performance AI Architecture, which involves making fast and efficient AI, from neural network architecture down to computer architecture. I've been working on Attention and Sparse Attention since about 2022.
Miscellany
- Links to GitHub, Google Scholar, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.; Teaching experience includes TA for CS 4476: Intro to Computer Vision at Georgia Tech in Spring 2025, Instructor for CS 322: Intro to Software Engineering at University of Oregon in Fall 2023, and TA for CS 322: Intro to Software Engineering at University of Oregon in Spring 2021, Winter 2022, and Winter 2023.
