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Arash Vahdat is a Research Director, leading the fundamental generative AI research (GenAIR) team at NVIDIA Research. Before joining NVIDIA, he was a research scientist at D-Wave Systems, working on generative learning and its applications in label-efficient training. Before D-Wave, Arash was a research faculty member at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where he led deep learning-based video analysis research and taught master courses on machine learning for big data. Arash’s current area of research is focused on generative learning with applications in multimodal training, accelerated generative models and gen AI for science. A complete publication list is also available on Arash's personal website.