People
People at Thinking Machines Lab
13 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at Thinking Machines Lab; 10 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Alexander Kirillov
Works on multimodal AI models
First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR
John Schulman
Cofounder and chief scientist
Co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab; OpenAI co-founder and first author of PPO and TRPO
Kenneth Li
Researcher
Thinking Machines Lab researcher; lead author of Othello world-model and Inference-Time Intervention papers
Liliang Ren
Member of Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of SambaY and Samba
Mira Murati
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab; previously in OpenAI's executive leadership
Myle Ott
Founding team
Founding-team member at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of fairseq and co-author of OPT and RoBERTa
Nikita Shulga
Listed with Thinking Machines Lab as a panelist for the PyTorch 2.14 release Q&A (September 2026)
PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI
Sam Gross
Company listed on Sam Gross's GitHub profile
Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional
Soumith Chintala
AI infrastructure, research, and robotics
Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack
Stephen Roller
Member of the Technical Staff
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR
Danqi Chen
Member of technical staff (academic year 2025–26) (earlier role)
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
Horace He
Credited "in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines" on a September 2025 research post (earlier role)
PyTorch core maintainer and torch.compile contributor; wrote a Thinking Machines post on LLM nondeterminism
Woosuk Kwon
Member of Technical Staff (May 2025 – November 2025) (earlier role)
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and CTO of Inferact
Support Us
Help keep USASI useful.
Optional. No USASI account required. Payment takes place on the linked provider’s website (Buy Me a Coffee).
About supporting this project