Ashwin Murthy

Ashwin Murthy is a Machine Learning Engineer at Groq, a company that develops AI accelerator chips called Language Processing Units (LPUs).1 He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics and Computer Science from Cornell University, where he achieved a GPA of 3.7 out of 4.

Prior to his role at Groq, Ashwin worked at Facebook in various positions, including:

• Independent Project at Data Augmentation GAN in PyTorch
• Software Engineer in Adaptive Experimentation
• Software Engineer in Notifications

Ashwin's academic experience includes serving as a CS Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Cornell University and working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Wise Research Group. He also explored entrepreneurship as an Android Developer.

Groq, where Ashwin currently works, is an American AI company founded in 2016 by former Google engineers. The company has raised significant funding, including a $640 million Series D round in August 2024, valuing it at $2.8 billion.1 Groq's LPU technology has shown impressive performance, being the first API provider to break the 100 tokens per second generation rate while running Meta's Llama2-70B parameter model.1

Ashwin's LinkedIn profile indicates that he is interested in developing and implementing novel technical solutions to real-world problems2, which aligns well with his current role at Groq and his previous experiences in the field of machine learning and software engineering.