William Falcon
Creator of PyTorch Lightning and CEO of Lightning AI
- CEO, Lightning AI1
William Falcon is the creator of PyTorch Lightning and the CEO of Lightning AI, according to Falcon's GitHub profile. The PyTorch Lightning citation file lists Falcon as the framework's author together with "The PyTorch Lightning team", and Falcon published the 1.0.0 general availability release in October 2020. Falcon's profile also lists past work at Facebook AI Research and Goldman Sachs.124
Career
Falcon's GitHub profile describes Falcon as the creator of PyTorch Lightning and CEO of Lightning AI, and as an AI PhD researcher at NYU. The same profile lists earlier work at Facebook AI Research, Goldman Sachs and Columbia, and a co-founding role at NextGenVest.1
Open-source work
The PyTorch Lightning citation file gives a release date of 2019-03-30 and lists Falcon and "The PyTorch Lightning team" as authors. The framework organizes PyTorch code so that training infrastructure such as mixed precision and multi-GPU or multi-node training is handled by the library, and it is published under the Apache 2.0 license.256
Falcon published the 1.0.0 "General availability" release of PyTorch Lightning in October 2020, and the repository's CODEOWNERS file lists Falcon, together with Luca Antiga, as an owner of the README and documentation index files.43
Research
With Kyunghyun Cho, Falcon wrote a 2020 paper that describes contrastive self-supervised learning methods within a single conceptual framework and uses it to design a new approach.7
Work
PyTorch LightningOpen-source code
Creator of the framework and the named author in its citation file; Falcon also published the 1.0.0 general availability release in October 2020 and is a code owner for its documentation and README.2143
A Framework For Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning And Designing A New Approach (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
First author, with Kyunghyun Cho, of a 2020 paper that sets out a conceptual framework for contrastive self-supervised learning and proposes a new approach within it.7
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Other documented roles
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- Past affiliation (listed as former on Falcon's GitHub profile), Facebook AI Research1
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