People
People in ml frameworks and libraries
97 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list ml frameworks and libraries as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Abdul Fatir Ansari
Senior Applied Scientist, AWS AI, Amazon Web Services
Senior Applied Scientist at AWS and first author of the Chronos and Chronos-2 time series forecasting models
Abubakar Abid
Machine learning team lead, working on Gradio, Hugging Face
Co-founder of the Gradio library and machine learning team lead at Hugging Face
Adam Paszke
Research Scientist, Google
First author of the PyTorch paper and a named author of JAX; research scientist at Google
Alban Desmaison
Research Engineer, Meta
Lead Core Maintainer of PyTorch and a research engineer at Meta
Alex Smola
CEO and Co-Founder, Boson AI
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Alexandre Gramfort
Research Science Director, Meta
Co-creator of scikit-learn and initial creator of MNE-Python; Research Science Director at Meta Reality Labs
Alexei Baevski
Company listed on Baevski's GitHub profile, Google
First author of wav2vec 2.0 and data2vec at Facebook AI; fairseq co-author
Andreas C. Müller
Principal Research SDE, Gray Systems Lab, Microsoft
Core developer and co-maintainer of scikit-learn; Principal Research SDE at Microsoft
Angelos Katharopoulos
Member of the Machine Learning Research group, Apple
One of the four initial developers of MLX, Apple's array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Awni Hannun
Member of the Technical Staff, Anthropic
Co-creator of MLX, an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon
Bratin Saha
Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services
Former AWS vice president for AI, machine learning and data infrastructure services
Carlos Guestrin
Professor, Computer Science; Fortinet Founders Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Chip Huyen
ML tooling; core developer of NeMo, NVIDIA
Writer on AI system design; former NeMo core developer at NVIDIA and Stanford ML systems instructor
Chris Lattner
Co-founder, Modular
Co-founder of Modular, maker of the MAX inference framework and the Mojo language
Clément Delangue
Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, whose Hub distributes open models and the libraries used to run them
Clément Farabet
VP of Research, Google DeepMind
VP of Research at Google DeepMind and Gemma 4 core contributor; formerly NVIDIA's VP of AI infrastructure
David Talby
Chief Executive Officer, John Snow Labs
CEO of John Snow Labs and creator of the open-source Spark NLP library; formerly at Microsoft and Amazon
Dmytro Dzhulgakov
Co-Founder, Fireworks AI
Co-founder of Fireworks AI; previously a PyTorch core maintainer at Meta
Dong Yu
VP of AI Foundations, Capital One
VP of AI Foundations at Capital One; former Microsoft Research principal researcher; first author on CNTK
Edward Yang
Research Engineer, Meta
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers; research engineer at Meta
Fabian Pedregosa
Research scientist, Gemini Core team, Google
Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010
Francisco Massa
Facebook AI Research, as listed on GitHub profile, Meta
Emeritus TorchVision maintainer and co-author of Meta's DINOv3, DETR and Detectron2
François Chollet
Co-founder, ARC Prize Foundation
Creator and project lead of Keras, whose KerasHub runs open-weight models on JAX, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
Frédéric Bastien
JAX team, NVIDIA
Member of the JAX team at NVIDIA; first author of the 2012 Theano paper
Gabriel Synnaeve
Research scientist (joined FAIR as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015; listed with Meta Superintelligence Labs on a 2026 paper), Meta
Research scientist at Meta; last author of Code Llama and co-author of Wav2Letter, EnCodec, and MusicGen
Gavin Uberti
Co-founder and CEO, Etched
Co-founder and CEO of Etched, which builds inference chips and racks; former Apache TVM contributor
George Hotz
Founder, tiny corp
Creator of the open-source tinygrad deep learning framework and founder of tiny corp and comma.ai
Georgi Gerganov
Maintains llama.cpp with the ggml team, Hugging Face
Develops llama.cpp and the ggml tensor library for running models on local hardware
Gilles Louppe
Professor; group leader of the Science with AI Lab (SAIL), Montefiore Institute, University of Liège
Professor at the University of Liège leading the Science with AI Lab; former scikit-learn core developer
Greg Chanan
Core Maintainer, PyTorch
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the original PyTorch paper and the PyTorch 2 paper
Guolin Ke
SVP of AI, DP Technology
Creator of LightGBM; SVP of AI at DP Technology and former senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia
Harrison Kinsley
Creator, sentdex
Creator of sentdex, a YouTube channel of Python and machine-learning tutorials
Horace He
Core Maintainer, PyTorch
PyTorch core maintainer and torch.compile contributor; wrote a Thinking Machines post on LLM nondeterminism
Ian Buck
Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, NVIDIA
Vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA; described by NVIDIA as the inventor of CUDA
Jake VanderPlas
Company listed on Jake VanderPlas's GitHub profile, Google
Named author of JAX who has written several of its design proposals
James Bergstra
Research Scholar, David Cox's biological and computer vision group at the Rowland Institute, Harvard University
First author of the Hyperopt paper and co-developer of Theano; former Research Scholar at Harvard
James Bradbury
Listed with Google as an author of the 2019 PyTorch paper, Google
Named author of JAX and co-author of the original PyTorch paper
Ján Drgoňa
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (since January 2025), Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins associate professor and lead developer of PNNL's NeuroMANCER scientific machine learning library
Jane Xu
Module maintainer, Optimizers (torch.optim) and C++ API (libtorch + StableABI), PyTorch
PyTorch module maintainer for torch.optim and for the C++ API (libtorch and the stable ABI)
Jeff Dean
Co-founder, Discovery Loop
Co-founder of Discovery Loop; former Chief Scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research
Jeff Johnson
Research Scientist, SysML group, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), Meta
Meta FAIR research scientist; implemented the GPU version of the Faiss similarity search library
Jim Zemlin
CEO (earlier announcements give the title as Executive Director), The Linux Foundation
CEO of the Linux Foundation, home of projects including Linux, Kubernetes, PyTorch and MCP
Joe Spisak
Vice President of Product and Head of Open Source, Reflection AI
VP of Product and Head of Open Source at Reflection AI; PyTorch core maintainer
Joel Schlosser
Listed with Meta on a June 2025 PyTorch blog post; GitHub profile lists Facebook as company, Meta
PyTorch module maintainer for torch.nn and torch.optim
Johannes Gäßler
Experimental particle physicist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Member of llama.cpp's CUDA backend code-owner team; experimental particle physicist at KIT
John Giannandrea
Senior Vice President, Machine Learning and AI Strategy (2018–2025), Apple
Former Apple senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, overseeing Core ML and Siri
Jonathan Cohen
Credited in Nemotron 3 leadership (December 2025) and Nemotron 3 Super contributors (April 2026), NVIDIA
NVIDIA AI software leader who led NeMo development; listed in the Nemotron 3 leadership credits
Josh Gordon
Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, Google
Wrote the TensorFlow Hub launch post as Developer Advocate for TensorFlow, and later TensorFlow release posts
Joshua Lochner
Working on Transformers.js, Hugging Face
Works on Transformers.js at Hugging Face, a library for running Transformers models in the browser
Kaichao You
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Inferact
Lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and Chief Scientist of Inferact; creator of depyf
Laurence Moroney
Director of AI, Arm
Director of AI at Arm; author and educator who led AI Advocacy at Google
Laurent Sartran
Listed with DeepMind on the Transformer Grammars paper (2022), DeepMind
First author of Transformer Grammars at DeepMind and co-author of the SynJax library for JAX
Lewis Tunstall
Machine learning engineer working on post-training, Hugging Face
Works on post-training at Hugging Face; first author of Zephyr and a listed author of TRL
Lorenzo Stella
Computer scientist, Amazon Web Services
AWS computer scientist; second author of Chronos and a co-author of GluonTS and Chronos-2
Luca Antiga
CTO, Domyn
CTO of Domyn; CTO of Lightning AI from 2022 to 2026 and co-author of Deep Learning with PyTorch
Luis Lastras
Director of language and multimodal models, IBM Research
IBM Research director of language and multimodal models; co-author of the Granite Switch 4.1 launch post
Łukasz Kaiser
Listed under Reasoning Research leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card; GitHub profile lists OpenAI, OpenAI
OpenAI researcher; co-author of the Transformer paper and the TensorFlow white paper
Lysandre Debut
Chief Open-Source Officer, Hugging Face
Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; co-author of the Transformers library paper and DistilBERT
Mark Collier
Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation
Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation since February 2026; co-founder of the OpenStack Foundation
Mark Saroufim
Cofounder, Core Automation
Co-founder of Core Automation and of GPU MODE; PyTorch maintainer whose work includes torchao
Martín Abadi
At Google since November 2014, Google
At Google since 2014; first author of the TensorFlow papers; emeritus at UC Santa Cruz
Mathieu Blondel
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; former lead developer of JAXopt and former scikit-learn core developer
Matthew Johnson
Research scientist (GitHub bio "research scientist @ Google Brain"), Google
Named author of JAX and co-author of the SysML 2018 paper on an early JAX; research scientist at Google
Matthew Watson
Company listed on Matthew Watson's GitHub profile, Google
Named author of KerasHub, the pretrained-model library for Keras, and co-author of its getting-started guide
Michael Auli
Principal Research Scientist/Director, Meta
Former Principal Research Scientist/Director at Meta FAIR; last author of wav2vec 2.0, fairseq, and MMS
Mikayla Gawarecki
Module maintainer, NN APIs (torch.nn) and C++ API (libtorch + StableABI), PyTorch
PyTorch module maintainer for torch.nn and the C++ API; author of PyTorch tutorials
Mu Li
Co-Founder & CEO / CTO, Boson AI
Co-founder of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; led an AWS team working on Apache MXNet
Natalia Gimelshein
Core Maintainer, PyTorch
PyTorch core maintainer for CUDA; co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers
Nicolas Hug
ML engineer, working on PyTorch, Meta AI
Maintainer of PyTorch's TorchVision and TorchCodec libraries; ML engineer at Meta AI
Nikhil Thorat
Named in Thorat's GitHub profile bio (role not stated), Anthropic
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
Nikita Shulga
Listed with Thinking Machines Lab as a panelist for the PyTorch 2.14 release Q&A (September 2026), Thinking Machines Lab
PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI
Nils Reimers
VP of AI Search, Cohere
Creator of the Sentence Transformers library and VP of AI Search at Cohere
Patrick von Platen
Listed in The Mistral AI Team on the Mistral NeMo model card and as a contributor to the Ministral 3 report (2026), Mistral AI
First listed author of Hugging Face Diffusers; vLLM code owner for Mistral models
Pete Warden
CEO, Useful Sensors Inc
CEO of Useful Sensors, founding member of the TensorFlow team, and co-author of TinyML and Moonshine
Peter Hawkins
JAX (GitHub bio "JAX @ Google"), Google
Named author of JAX, the Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation
Piero Molino
CEO and Co-founder, Studio Atelico
Creator of the Ludwig declarative deep learning framework; CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico
Pieter Noordhuis
Maintainer, Distributed (now listed as emeritus), PyTorch
Emeritus maintainer of PyTorch Distributed; contributor to the Gloo collective communications library
Piotr Bialecki
Manages the PyTorch team at NVIDIA (joined the team in 2019), NVIDIA
PyTorch core maintainer who manages NVIDIA's PyTorch team and its work on the CUDA backend
Rajat Monga
Listed with Google Research (2015) and Google Brain (2016) affiliations on the TensorFlow papers, Google Research and Google Brain
Co-author of the TensorFlow white paper and the TensorFlow system paper from Google Brain
Razvan Pascanu
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Research Scientist at DeepMind; contributor to Theano and first author of a study of RNN training difficulties
Ronan Collobert
Research scientist, Machine Learning Research, Apple
Research scientist in Apple Machine Learning Research; developer of Torch, wav2letter, and flashlight
Ross Girshick
Research scientist, FAIR (2015–2023), Meta
First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2
Roy Frostig
Research scientist, Google DeepMind
Co-author and core developer of JAX; research scientist at Google DeepMind
Sam Gross
Company listed on Sam Gross's GitHub profile, Thinking Machines
Co-author of the PyTorch paper and author of PEP 703, which makes CPython's GIL optional
Samy Bengio
Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning Research, Apple
Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple; sponsor of the MLX library
Sayak Paul
Senior Research Engineer, working on diffusion models (since March 2026), Hugging Face
Works on diffusion models at Hugging Face and is a listed author of the Diffusers library
Shinji Watanabe
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; first author of the ESPnet speech processing toolkit
Soumith Chintala
AI infrastructure, research, and robotics, Thinking Machines
Co-founder of PyTorch, the framework behind ExecuTorch's on-device AI stack
Sylvain Gugger
Research Engineer and one of the core maintainers of the Transformers library, Hugging Face
Former core maintainer of Hugging Face Transformers and co-author of Deep Learning for Coders
Thomas J. Fan
Member of Technical Staff, Modal
scikit-learn maintainer; Member of Technical Staff at Modal
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), Hugging Face
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; created the Transformers library
Tianqi Chen
Associate Professor, Machine Learning Department and Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Tim Davis
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Modular, Qualcomm
Co-founder of Modular, makers of Mojo and MAX; SVP and GM of Modular at Qualcomm, which acquired it in 2026
Tong He
Senior Applied Scientist (from 2018), Amazon Web Services
Co-author of the XGBoost R package; committer on DGL, GluonCV and Apache MXNet; former AWS applied scientist
Yangqing Jia
Founder and CEO, Intent Lab
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Yuxin Wu
Builds foundation models (Kimi), Moonshot AI
Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR
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