Aleksander Ficek is a senior research engineer at NVIDIA, focusing on LLMs and NLP on both the engineering and research fronts. His past work includes shipping multiple LLM products such as NeMo Inference Microservice (NIM) and NeMo Evaluator alongside research in retrieval-augmented generation and parameter efficient fine-tuning. He graduated from University of Waterloo in 2022 and runs a popular AI meetup in Zurich.