Arash Vahdat is a principal scientist and research manager, leading the fundamental generative AI research team at NVIDIA Research. Before joining NVIDIA, he was a research scientist at D-Wave Systems where he worked 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, compositional generation, representation learning, and gen AI for science.