Soumith

Soumith Chintala is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his work in deep learning and open-source software. He is a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), where he contributed to the development of PyTorch, a widely used Python-based framework for deep learning. PyTorch originated from the Torch project, a Lua-based scientific computing framework, and Chintala’s efforts helped modernize it for Python and improve usability for researchers. He has contributed to the broader PyTorch ecosystem, including libraries and tooling that support model training, evaluation, and deployment.

Chintala’s work has helped popularize PyTorch in both academia and industry. PyTorch is used for tasks such as computer vision, natural language processing, and scientific computing, offering dynamic computation graphs and strong support for GPUs. Through his contributions, Chintala has played a key role in shaping the tools many researchers rely on for prototyping and scaling neural networks.