New York University
Piotr DollárTechnical Staff · Thinking Machines LabResearcher↗
Researcher · Executive
Soumith Chintala
Chintala co-founded PyTorch, the software framework that made experimental neural-network code easy to write, debug, and share.[1] Its flexible design helped it become the default platform for AI research and a foundation for production systems across the industry.[2] He also co-authored DCGAN, an influential early image generator.[3]
Career & education
Current role
Thinking Machines Lab2025-presentCTO
Thinking Machines Lab2025-presentPreviously
Meta2014-2025
Meta2014-2025Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations186,918As of Nov 1, '26
citations+4,276Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
References
- Soumith Chintala — projectssoumith.ch
Soumith Chintala — projects supports the anchored contribution. Personal account of co-founding and adoption, original PyTorch/DCGAN papers checked; existing prose preserved.
- PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Libraryarxiv.org
PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library supports the anchored contribution. Personal account of co-founding and adoption, original PyTorch/DCGAN papers checked; existing prose preserved.
- Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networksarxiv.org
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks supports the anchored contribution. Personal account of co-founding and adoption, original PyTorch/DCGAN papers checked; existing prose preserved.
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