Wasi Uddin Ahmad

Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA

Joined

October 2017

Names

Wasi Uddin Ahmad (Preferred)

Emails

****@ucla.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Senior Research Scientist

NVIDIA (nvidia.com)

2024 – Present

Applied Scientist

Amazon (amazon.com)

2021 – 2024

PhD student

Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2017 – 2021

Intern

Facebook (fb.com)

2020 – 2020

Intern

Yahoo (yahoo-inc.com)

2019 – 2019

Intern

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2018 – 2018

MS student

University of Virginia (virginia.edu)

2015 – 2017

Intern

Walmart Labs (walmartlabs.com)

2016 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Kai-Wei Chang

2016 – 2021

Expertise

Deep Learning

2016 – Present

Natural Language Processing

2015 – Present

Information Retrieval

2015 – Present

Machine Learning

2012 – Present

Publications

Scaling Test-Time Compute to Achieve IOI Gold Medal with Open-Weight Models
Mehrzad Samadi, Aleksander Ficek, Sean Narenthiran, Siddhartha Jain, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Somshubra Majumdar, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu, Juyong Jiang, Tianyang Liu, Chen Gong, Bhupesh Bishnoi, Vaisakhi Mishra, Marek Suppa, Noah Ziems, Saiteja Utpala, Ming Xu, Guangyu Song, Kaixin Li, Yuhan Cao, Bo Liu, Zheng Liu, Sabina Abdurakhmanova, Wenhao Yu, Mengzhao Jia et al. (20 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
BigCodeArena: Unveiling More Reliable Human Preferences in Code Generation via Execution
Terry Yue Zhuo, Xiaolong Jin, Hange Liu, Juyong Jiang, Tianyang Liu, Chen GONG, Bhupesh Bishnoi, Vaisakhi Mishra, Marek Suppa, Noah Ziems, Saiteja Utpala, Ming Xu, Guangyu Song, Kaixin Li, Yuhan Cao, Bo Liu, Zheng Liu, Sabina Abdurakhmanova, Wenhao Yu, Mengzhao Jia et al. (20 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Test-Time Compute to Achieve IOI Gold Medal with Open-Weight Models
Mehrzad Samadi, Aleksander Ficek, Sean Narenthiran, Siddhartha Jain, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Somshubra Majumdar, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg
- DL4C @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
OpenCodeReasoning-II: A Simple Test Time Scaling Approach via Self-Critique
Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Somshubra Majumdar, Aleksander Ficek, Sean Narenthiran, Mehrzad Samadi, Jocelyn Huang, Siddhartha Jain, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Output to Evaluation: Does Raw Instruction-Tuned Code LLMs Output Suffice for Fill-in-the-Middle Code Generation?
Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Somshubra Majumdar, Boris Ginsburg
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
OpenCodeReasoning: Advancing Data Distillation for Competitive Coding
Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Sean Narenthiran, Somshubra Majumdar, Aleksander Ficek, Siddhartha Jain, Jocelyn Huang, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
OpenCodeInstruct: A Large-scale Instruction Tuning Dataset for Code LLMs
Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Aleksander Ficek, Mehrzad Samadi, Jocelyn Huang, Vahid Noroozi, Somshubra Majumdar, Boris Ginsburg
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
OpenCodeReasoning: Advancing Data Distillation for Competitive Coding
Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Sean Narenthiran, Somshubra Majumdar, Aleksander Ficek, Siddhartha Jain, Jocelyn Huang, Vahid Noroozi, Boris Ginsburg
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Genetic Instruct: Scaling up Synthetic Generation of Coding Instructions for Large Language Models
Somshubra Majumdar, Vahid Noroozi, Mehrzad Samadi, Sean Narenthiran, Aleksander Ficek, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Jocelyn Huang, Jagadeesh Balam, Boris Ginsburg
- ACL (6) 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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