Frédéric Bastien
Member of the JAX team at NVIDIA; first author of the 2012 Theano paper
Frédéric Bastien works on the JAX team at NVIDIA. Bastien's commits to the JAX repository include documentation for jax.checkpoint policies, the compilation cache, jax.experimental.multihost_utils and cudaMallocAsync, along with error-message improvements and, in 2026, a fix to GPU name detection. Earlier, Bastien was first author of "Theano: new features and speed improvements" (2012), which describes the Theano compiler for turning symbolic math expressions into efficient code.124
Work
JAXOpen-source code
Commits authored in the jax-ml/jax repository from 2023 to 2026, including documentation of jax.checkpoint policies, the compilation cache and jax.experimental.multihost_utils, a link to the JAX Toolbox containers, and a GPU name detection fix.23
Theano (external site: github.com)Open-source code
First author of "Theano: new features and speed improvements" (2012), which presents new capabilities and speed gains in Theano; the Theano repository's commit history shows the nouiz account (Frédéric Bastien) merging pull requests into the project, and the license is held by the Theano Development Team.456
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