Technical Advisory Council

Brian Granger is a Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services and a professor of physics and data science at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He works at the intersection of UX design and engineering on tools for scientific computing, data science, machine learning, and data visualization. Brian is a co-founder and leader of Project Jupyter, co-founder of the Altair project for statistical visualization, and creator of the PyZMQ project for ZMQ-based message passing in Python.

Jeff Daily is a Fellow at AMD and the chief architect of the Machine Learning Software Engineering group supporting ML frameworks such as PyTorch and onnxruntime on AMD GPUs. He enjoys delivering open source software to answer the challenges of the rapidly-changing ML landscape. For over five years, he has contributed to the PyTorch core as well as its extension libraries. His sustained contributions earned him the first ever Linux Foundation PyTorch Award “for excellence in long-term contributions across all PyTorch modalities.” Though he has not achieved the status of maintainer, Jeff is a trusted contributor. Jeff’s technical leadership is one of the reasons PyTorch runs out of the box without any code modifications on AMD GPUs. In addition to PyTorch technical contributions, Jeff is the AMD representative for the PyTorch Foundation’s Technical Advisory Committee.

Luca Antiga is the CTO at Lightning AI. He is an early contributor to PyTorch core and co-authored “Deep Learning with PyTorch” (published by Manning). He started his journey as a researcher in Bioengineering, and later co-founded Orobix, a company focused on building and deploying AI in production settings.

Milos Puzovic is Technical Director at Arm where he is working on accelerating machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch on AArch64. In the past, he worked on designing and developing infrastructure for rapid development and deployment to edge devices and cloud of novel neural models that were trained using semi-supervised approach. He also has interest in optimizing applications through hardware and software co-design by using machine learning, code generation, optimization and verification of high-level models for different types of architecture. Milos has PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge where his thesis was on hardware/software interface for dynamic multicore scheduling and BSc with First Class Honors in Joint Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College London.

Piotr joined PyTorch team at NVIDIA in 2019 and currently manages the team. He drives NVIDIA’s effort in maintaining and advancing PyTorch’s CUDA backend and received the PyTorch SUPERHERO award in 2023 for his community contributions especially in the PyTorch discussion board. As a Core Maintainer, he is also focussed on PyTorch’s long-term vision and development.

Ricardo is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience across the enterprise and startup landscape. He works at Snowflake as a Cloud Infrastructure and Open Source Lead, focusing on automating AI/ML infrastructure using cloud-native technologies at scale. A passionate open source advocate, Ricardo also serves as a shadow member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and CNCF AI Sub-project, where he helps shape the future of AI computing infrastructure.

Throughout his career, Ricardo has held key engineering and leadership roles at major companies such as Rakuten, Cisco, and VMware, as well as at innovative startups including Truera, Branch Metrics, Coupa, HyTrust, Exablox, and SnapLogic. He’s committed to community-driven innovation and regularly contributes to industry initiatives that bridge the gap between open source communities and enterprise adoption.

Soumith Chintala is a Scientist-Engineer focused on AI and Robotics, leading influential AI work such as PyTorch, DCGAN and Torch-7; work which is used by several top institutions including NASA, Meta, Google, Tesla, Microsoft, Disney, Genentech, and numerous other Fortune-500 companies and in the curriculum of top-ranked universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and MIT. He currently leads PyTorch and other AI projects at Meta, is a Visiting Professor at New York University, and maintains advisory roles at various institutions.

Graduated in 1999 from the ENSAE and doctor in 2004, Xavier Dupré began his career at A2iA, a company specialized in automatic reading of cheques and handwriting recognition. After a short passage in finance, he joined Yahoo in 2008 to work on search query rewriting problems by implementing statistical algorithms designed for all languages. In 2010, Xavier joined Microsoft to participate in the local search engine. He contributed to the partnership between PagesJaunes and Bing. Xavier worked on very large scale problems for Microsoft’s search engine Bing. He is now working on Azure Machine Learning. Meanwhile, Xavier Dupré have been teaching programming since 2001 at the ENSAE. The courses have expanded in 2014 to machine learning and technologies associated to big data, including Azure through a partnership between Microsoft France and the ENSAE. More recently, Xavier has explored new ways to teach through hackathons (hackathon Microsoft- ENSAE-Croix-Rouge – November 2015 – video – article), collaborations between academic and non-profitable organization through students projects or coding snack.

Yikun Jiang is principal software engineer from Huawei computing opensource development team, working on multi-arch, heterogeneous hardware support and improvement of projects in computing area. He has more than 10 years experience in computing area, and leads an active and creative team in R&D under the principle of “upstream first”, which aims to make diverse computing power ubiquitous.