Alban Desmaison
Lead Core Maintainer of PyTorch and a research engineer at Meta
Alban Desmaison is a Research Engineer at Meta and the Lead Core Maintainer of PyTorch. PyTorch's maintainers page also lists Desmaison as a module maintainer for torch.nn, torch.optim, autograd, multiprocessing, and Build + CI. Desmaison co-authored the 2019 PyTorch paper and the PyTorch 2 paper (ASPLOS 2024). PyTorch's blog announced Desmaison as the speaker for the featured NVIDIA GTC 2026 session "From Kernels to Clusters: How PyTorch Powers High-Performance AI," scheduled for March 2026.13452
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PyTorchOpen-source code
Listed as PyTorch's Lead Core Maintainer and as a module maintainer for torch.nn, torch.optim, torch.autograd, multiprocessing, and Build + CI; co-author of the 2019 PyTorch paper. The repository is under a BSD-style license.346
PyTorch 2: TorchDynamo and TorchInductor (torch.compile)Published research
Co-author, listed with Meta, of the ASPLOS 2024 paper introducing TorchDynamo and TorchInductor, which implement torch.compile in PyTorch 2.5
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