People
People in training systems
92 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list training systems as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Adam Paszke
Research Scientist, Google
First author of the PyTorch paper and a named author of JAX; research scientist at Google
Akshita Bhagia
Senior Research Engineer, AllenNLP team, Ai2
Senior Research Engineer at Ai2 working on the OLMo and FlexOlmo open language models
Alban Desmaison
Research Engineer, Meta
Lead Core Maintainer of PyTorch and a research engineer at Meta
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Arthur Mensch
Co-founder and CEO, Mistral AI
Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI; equal-contribution author of DeepMind's Chinchilla scaling paper
Barret Zoph
VP of Research (Post-Training), OpenAI
First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI
Beren Millidge
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, leading the technical teams, Zyphra
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Zyphra; senior author of the Zamba, Zamba2 and Zamba2-VL reports
Boris Ginsburg
Applied research scientist, NVIDIA
NVIDIA applied research scientist; last-listed author on Parakeet speech recognition papers
Brandon Yang
Co-founder, Cartesia
Co-founder of Cartesia; works on systems for machine learning, previously at Google Brain
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA
VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA; co-author of the Megatron-LM and cuDNN papers
Byron Hsu
Merge oncall for prefill-decode (PD) disaggregation, SGLang project
Led Liger Kernel, open-source Triton kernels for memory-efficient LLM training and fine-tuning
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
Ce Zhang
Founder & CTO, Together AI
Founder and CTO of Together AI; Neubauer Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Chicago
Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Crusoe
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Crusoe, which builds AI data centers and the Crusoe Cloud platform
Cho-Jui Hsieh
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA associate professor of computer science; co-author of the LAMB and Lion optimizer papers
Chris Van Pelt
Distinguished Engineer and Cofounder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and Distinguished Engineer of Weights & Biases, the machine learning developer platform
Christopher Ré
Professor, Department of Computer Science (Stanford AI Lab, CRFM, Machine Learning Group), Stanford University
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of FlashAttention, Hyena and RedPajama; Together AI founder
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
Colin Raffel
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor and Hugging Face faculty researcher; first author of the T5 paper
Cully Cavness
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Crusoe, the AI infrastructure and cloud company
Daniel Han
Listed on Unsloth's About page for software, data, and algorithms, Unsloth
Works on Unsloth, open-source software for fine-tuning and running models on local hardware
Danqi Chen
Associate Professor of Computer Science; co-lead, Princeton NLP Group; associate director, Princeton Language and Intelligence, Princeton University
Princeton associate professor co-leading the Princeton NLP Group; co-author of RoBERTa and SimCSE
David D. Cox
VP, AI Foundations; IBM Director, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, IBM Research
VP, AI Foundations at IBM Research, working on IBM's Granite models; earlier a Harvard professor
David Grangier
Machine Learning Group, Apple Research, Apple
Machine learning researcher at Apple; co-author of the fairseq sequence modeling toolkit
David Patterson
Google Fellow, Google
Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training
Dirk Groeneveld
Base-model developer on OLMo 2, listed with an Ai2 affiliation (2024), Ai2
First author of Ai2's OLMo paper; contributor to OLMo 2, OLMoE, and the Dolma corpus
Edward Beeching
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Hugging Face
Hugging Face research scientist; credited author of the TRL library and co-first author of Zephyr
Edward Yang
Research Engineer, Meta
PyTorch core maintainer and co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers; research engineer at Meta
Emily Webber
Principal machine learning specialist solutions architect, AWS Trainium team, Amazon Web Services
Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author
Fartash Faghri
Machine learning researcher, Apple Machine Learning Research, Apple
Machine learning researcher at Apple Machine Learning Research; co-author of FastVLM and MobileCLIP
Fidelma M. Russo
Executive Vice President, General Manager of Hybrid Cloud and Chief Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Executive Vice President, General Manager of Hybrid Cloud and Chief Technology Officer of HPE
Frédéric Bastien
JAX team, NVIDIA
Member of the JAX team at NVIDIA; first author of the 2012 Theano paper
Furu Wei
Distinguished Scientist and Vice President; Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, leading the GenAI group, Microsoft Research
Distinguished Scientist and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia; senior author of the BitNet papers
Hao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering; leads the Hao AI Lab, University of California San Diego
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
Hyung Won Chung
Research Scientist, OpenAI
Researcher on reasoning and agents, formerly at Google Brain; first author of the Flan-T5 scaling paper
Ion Stoica
Professor of Computer Science, Xu Bao Chancellor Chair; Director of the Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
Jakub Pachocki
Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Chief Scientist at OpenAI; overall pretraining lead for GPT-4; set research direction for OpenAI Five
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
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
Jeffrey Quesnelle
Co-founder and CTO, Nous Research
Co-founder and CTO of Nous Research; co-author of the Hermes 4 technical report, YaRN and DeMo
Jeremy Howard
Co-founder (with Eric Ries); CEO / R&D, Answer.AI
Co-founder of Answer.AI, which released FSDP/QLoRA for fine-tuning large models on gaming GPUs
Johannes Hagemann
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Prime Intellect
Co-founder and CTO of Prime Intellect; co-author of the INTELLECT-1, INTELLECT-2 and INTELLECT-3 reports
John Duchi
Associate Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; first author of the lottery ticket hypothesis paper; MosaicML founding team
Jong Youl Choi
Researcher, Discrete Algorithms Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a developer of the HydraGNN graph neural network library
Kunle Olukotun
Co-founder and Chief Technologist, SambaNova
Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova; Cadence Design Professor at Stanford University
Liliang Ren
Member of Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of SambaY and Samba
Luca Antiga
CTO, Domyn
CTO of Domyn; CTO of Lightning AI from 2022 to 2026 and co-author of Deep Learning with PyTorch
Lucas Atkins
Author of Arcee AI's model launch posts and co-author of its Trinity Large technical report, Arcee AI
Arcee AI author of the Trinity model launch posts and co-author of the Arcee Trinity Large technical report
Lukas Biewald
General Manager and Co-founder, Weights & Biases
Co-founder and General Manager of Weights & Biases (part of CoreWeave); founder of CrowdFlower/Figure Eight
Luke Zettlemoyer
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA
Martín Abadi
At Google since November 2014, Google
At Google since 2014; first author of the TensorFlow papers; emeritus at UC Santa Cruz
Massimiliano Lupo Pasini
Data scientist, Computational Coupled Physics group, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Data scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who led development of the HydraGNN graph neural network
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Michael Carbin
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Head, Programming Systems Group (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor heading the Programming Systems Group; co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis
Michael Han
Listed on Unsloth's About page for design, product, and engineering, Unsloth
Works on Unsloth and is an area owner for the Studio UI, its web interface for running and training models
Michael I. Jordan
Directeur de Recherche, Inria and École Normale Supérieure
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Michael Intrator
Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (leading the company since 2017), CoreWeave
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of CoreWeave, a cloud built for AI training and inference
Mika Senghaas
Research engineer, Prime Intellect
Research engineer at Prime Intellect; first author of the INTELLECT-3 and PRIME-RL reports
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
Myle Ott
Founding team, Thinking Machines Lab
Founding-team member at Thinking Machines Lab; first author of fairseq and co-author of OPT and RoBERTa
Naveen Rao
CEO and cofounder, Unconventional AI
CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI
Noam Shazeer
Vice President, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of the Transformer paper and the mixture-of-experts layer
Peter Salanki
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO since March 2024), CoreWeave
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CoreWeave, the GPU cloud for AI training and inference
Pieter Noordhuis
Maintainer, Distributed (now listed as emeritus), PyTorch
Emeritus maintainer of PyTorch Distributed; contributor to the Gloo collective communications library
Priya Nagpurkar
Vice President of AI Platform (as titled by IBM Research in March 2026), IBM Research
Vice president at IBM Research, titled VP of AI platform in March 2026; co-author of LLM-serving research
Quoc Le
Listed with Google and Google Brain affiliations on 2014–2017 papers, Google Brain
Co-author of the sequence-to-sequence, GNMT, and neural architecture search papers at Google
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
Robert Shaw
Director of Engineering, Red Hat
Red Hat engineering director and llm-d project lead; core committer to vLLM
Ruoming Pang
Listed with Meta Platforms on the ScaleAcross Explorer paper (May 2026); GitHub profile lists Meta, Meta
Overall lead of Apple's 2024 foundation language models and corresponding author of AXLearn; now at Meta
Sam McCandlish
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Architect; co-led the 2020 scaling-laws research at OpenAI
Sara Hooker
Co-founder and CEO, Adaption
Co-founder and CEO of Adaption; author of The Hardware Lottery and last author of the Aya model paper
Saurabh Tiwary
Vice President, Technical Fellow, Google DeepMind (page title); Vice President and General Manager of Cloud AI (bio), Google
Google vice president; former Microsoft CVP and Technical Fellow who led the Microsoft Turing group
Sean Lie
CTO and co-founder, Cerebras
Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras; presenter of its wafer-scale engine architecture at Hot Chips
Sid Black
Co-founder (2020), EleutherAI
Lead developer of GPT-NeoX-20B; co-founder of EleutherAI and Conjecture; co-author of The Pile
Simo Ryu
Collaborator on AuraFlow v0.1, credited on fal's AuraFlow model card, fal
Author of the LoRA repository for diffusion fine-tuning; AuraFlow collaborator and Diffusers contributor
Stas Bekman
Develops efficient post-training software at Snowflake AI Research, Snowflake AI Research
Software engineer focused on LLM training at Snowflake AI Research; author of an open ML engineering book
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Lambda
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lambda, the AI cloud and GPU infrastructure company
Stephen Roller
Member of the Technical Staff, Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab; co-first author of OPT; dialogue and LLM work at Meta FAIR
Susan Zhang
Built the LLM training infrastructure that created OPT-175B, Meta AI / FAIR
Co-first author of Meta AI's OPT; built LLM training infrastructure at FAIR and RL systems for OpenAI Five
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
Tim Dettmers
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Creator and maintainer of bitsandbytes; Assistant Professor at CMU and Research Scientist at Ai2
Tom Brown
Co-Founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and Chief Compute Officer; first author of the GPT-3 paper
Torsten Scholak
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; co-founder of the SLAM initiative, ServiceNow
Leads the Foundation Model Lab at ServiceNow Research; technical co-lead of the Apriel open-weight models
Tri Dao
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, leading the Dao AI Lab, Princeton University
First author of FlashAttention and co-author of Mamba; Princeton professor and Together AI co-founder
Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO, Together AI
Founder and CEO of Together AI, which builds a cloud platform for training and running large models
Weizhu Chen
Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, leading a modeling team, Microsoft AI
Technical Fellow and CVP at Microsoft AI; senior author of LoRA, DeBERTa and Samba
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
Yonghui Wu
First author of Google's 2016 GNMT paper, Google
First author of the paper on Google's Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT); co-author of Lingvo
Zhuohan Li
AI Research Scientist, Meta
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; AI Research Scientist at Meta focusing on inference
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