Makan Taghavi

Makan Taghavi is a senior product manager at NVIDIA focusing on​ image processing and data compression technologies, working on nvCOMP, DALI, nvImageCodec, nvTIFF, NPP and nvJPEG libraries. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Makan led the Low Power AI and Audio/Voice AI software stack at Qulacomm, driving over 100 design wins and helping establish Qualcomm's Low Power AI software platform as one of the leaders in AI on the Edge.
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Posts by Makan Taghavi

Developer Tools & Techniques Apr 09, 2026

Cut Checkpoint Costs with About 30 Lines of Python and NVIDIA nvCOMP

Training LLMs requires periodic checkpoints. These full snapshots of model weights, optimizer states, and gradients are saved to storage so training can resume... 12 MIN READ
Data Science Oct 06, 2025

Speeding Up Data Decompression with nvCOMP and the NVIDIA Blackwell Decompression Engine

Compression is a common technique to reduce storage costs and accelerate input/output transfer times across databases, data-center communications,... 7 MIN READ
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Computer Vision / Video Analytics May 23, 2025

Unlock Efficient Data Processing with the Latest from NVIDIA DALI

NVIDIA DALI, a portable, open source software library for decoding and augmenting images, videos, and speech, recently introduced several features that improve... 8 MIN READ