Igor Shovkun

Igor Shovkun is an engineer at NVIDIA who works on TensorRT-LLM, focusing on efficient inference for multimodal AI models. His work spans reasoning, video generation, GPU systems, and kernel optimization. Before joining NVIDIA, he was a high-performance computing engineer at SLB and a researcher at Stanford University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and bachelor's and master's degrees in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Igor Shovkun

Posts by Igor Shovkun

Agentic AI / Generative AI

ReplaySSM: Rethinking State Storage for Faster Hybrid-Model Decoding

Hybrid models interleave state-space model (SSM) layers with a few attention layers. NVIDIA Nemotron 3, Qwen3.5 through Qwen3.8, Kimi-K3, and GLM-5.3-Flash are... 14 MIN READ