Soumith Chintala

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New York, New York, United States15 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in leading AI and machine learning initiatives.
  • Co-founder of PyTorch, impacting the AI community.
  • Extensive experience in consulting and engineering leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and machine learning with extensive experience in software engineering.

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Other Skills

C++AlgorithmsComputer VisionJavaMatlabLinuxDistributed SystemsCShell ScriptingMySQLLaTeXRLuaOpenCVProgramming

About

I work on advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms, and on open-source software for machine learning. I'm experienced in leading large engineering and product teams impacting millions of people. I've consulted with hedge funds, seriously worked on robots, written several open source projects, built frontend web software.

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Thinking machines lab

Chief Technology Officer

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos

Meta

5 roles

AI Fixer

Jul 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York, United States

  • Tying and fixing a variety of AI things across Meta and the Industry -- Infra, Software, Open Source, Llama, etc.

VP / Fellow

Feb 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York, United States

  • Engineering Lead working on AI Infra, PyTorch, Generative AI

Distinguished Engineer / Senior Director

Mar 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs · New York, United States

  • Researcher with 52,000+ citations and an h-index of 29 in Machine Learning, computer vision, robotics
  • High-risk research. Leading PyTorch

Principal Engineer

Mar 2019Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · New York, United States

  • Lead for the PyTorch ML framework: technical, product, marketing. 100+ engineers.
  • Cross-industry partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Tesla, etc.
  • Acquired and advise PapersWithCode

Engineering Manager / Software Engineer 7

Aug 2014Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos · New York, United States

  • Co-created and lead PyTorch from zero customers to industry-wide adoption. Lead engineering, management, product, marketing and partnerships
  • Highly-cited research in Machine Learning on Generative Adversarial Networks: Wasserstein GAN, DCGAN and LAPGAN
  • Highlighted research in SysML, Game AI, NLP, Computer Vision
  • Lead the software and hardware infrastructure decisions for the FAIR organization from early 2015 to end of 2016, including hardware and cluster decisions and software stack design
  • Lead maintainer of the Torch-7 deep learning framework from 2013 until it’s end. At its peak, Torch-7 was used by some of the largest industrial labs in machine learning: Facebook, DeepMind and Twitter, among tens of research labs. Received media and scientific attention for this work, being invited to give several tens of talks on this topic.
  • Created convnet-benchmarks, a popular benchmarking suite for deep learning. It was used from 2015 to 2017 as a gold standard by NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Nervana and many other hardware manufacturers to optimize their systems

K-scale labs

Investor

May 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Aiwyn

Investor

May 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Spara

Investor

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Answer.ai

Investor

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Together ai

Investor

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Odyssey

Investor

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Reachrx

Investor

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Lepton ai

Investor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Draw things

Investor

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

1x

Investor

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Runway

Investor

Dec 2022Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Osmo

Investor

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

New york university

Research Visitor

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Voltron data

Member of the Advisory Board

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Anthropic

Investor

Apr 2021Present · 5 yrs

Volteo group

Investor

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

Museami

Software Engineer

Jul 2012Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Built machine learning and vision systems for mobile devices and music (iOS/Android)

New york university

Junior Research Scientist

Oct 2011Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Built various state-of-the-art machine learning systems using Deep Learning approaches. Projects include state-of-the-art results on Google Street View House Numbers (SVHN) dataset, pedestrian detection using unsupervised multi-stage feature learning and sentiment analysis on natural language data using deep neural language models.

Siemens

Research Intern

May 2011Sep 2011 · 4 mos · Princeton, USA

  • Built systems for autonomous robot navigation involving real-time 3D registration and matching of incoming camera images. Also worked on building deep learning classifiers on histopathological data to detect cancerous and malignant tissues.

New york university

Client Support

Sep 2010Apr 2011 · 7 mos

  • Monitoring and administration of linux servers, network and linux/windows/mac systems as well as maintaining print, mail servers and computing clusters.

Carnegie mellon university

Research Scholar

Aug 2009Mar 2010 · 7 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Region

  • Developed algorithms for navigation and balance of biped robots using a combination of vision and sonar sensors under Dr.Manuela Veloso
  • Worked on Face Recognition problems using a dimensionality reduction approach under Dr.Fernando De La Torre

Education

New York University

Master of Science — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2012

VIT University

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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