Tianqi is an assistant professor at CMU in the CS and ML departments, and a distinguished engineer at NVIDIA. Before being at NVIDIA, he was the chief technologist at OctoAI, which was acquired by NVIDIA. If you'd like to reach out, please email him at [email protected].​​

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