Niki Parmar fundamentally transformed AI as co-author of the landmark 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," introducing the Transformer architecture that powers models from BERT to GPT-4. As a research scientist at Google Brain, she continues advancing state-of-the-art language models while mentoring young women in ML research. After leaving Google, she served as co-founder and CTO at Adept an AI research and product lab backed by over $350M to build a universal collaborator that helps people take actions across software using natural language and was a co-founder at Essential AI. She now is a senior leader at Anthropic. Her work has been cited over 60,000 times, establishing the foundation for today's AI revolution.