Payal Motwani

Payal Motwani is a Technical Program Manager at NVIDIA, where she focuses on the inference side of artificial intelligence. Her career began in finance and investment banking before transitioning to management consulting, where she worked on projects involving AI and the Internet of Things. This exposure led her to join Amazon Alexa AI in November 2022, shortly after the release of ChatGPT-3, where she contributed to building foundational models and later moved to Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence Organization responsible for the Nova family of models. Over four years there, she worked primarily on post-training, AI safety, responsible AI security, and model personality. She recently pivoted to NVIDIA to gain experience in inference and optimizations. Payal holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth and a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from St. Jay Wales College in India. She has passed two levels of the CFA program and cleared exams from the Institute of Actuaries of the UK. Among her honors, she was awarded by the former President of India and received scholarships including one from Forella Weinberg Partners during her MBA.