PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Soumith Chintala

Soumith Chintala grew up in Hyderabad and studied at VIT Vellore and NYU before joining Meta AI's Fundamental AI Research team in 2014. He coauthored DCGAN, a 2015 paper on unsupervised representation learning, then helped start PyTorch in 2016. He coauthored PyTorch's 2019 NeurIPS paper, which describes an imperative, Pythonic library that makes debugging easy; ICLR selected DCGAN for its 2026 Test of Time Award. He left Meta in late 2025, joined Thinking Machines Lab in November, and became its CTO in January 2026.

Works
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Timeline

  1. 2014

    From VIT and NYU to FAIR

    He grew up in Hyderabad, studied at VIT Vellore and NYU, then joined Meta AI's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team in 2014.

  2. 2015

    Writing the DCGAN paper

    He coauthors DCGAN, a 2015 paper on unsupervised representation learning with deep convolutional adversarial networks.

  3. 2016

    Starting PyTorch development

    He helps start PyTorch development in 2016 through a collective effort with the LuaTorch community and support from Meta.

  4. 2019

    An imperative Python style

    He coauthors the NeurIPS 2019 paper “PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library,” which describes an imperative, Pythonic style that makes debugging easy.

  5. April 2026

    A Test of Time award

    ICLR selects the DCGAN paper for a 2026 Test of Time award, recognizing work from ICLR 2016 that has had lasting impact.

  6. Since January 2026

    Leading Thinking Machines

    He leaves Meta in late 2025, joins Thinking Machines Lab in November, and becomes its CTO in January 2026.

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  1. Soumith Chintala: Bio, Work & Ideas | AI Engineer ai.engineer. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Soumith Chintala success story: How a VIT graduate rejected by 27 universities got a job at Meta - India Today indiatoday.in. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. [1511.06434] Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Soumith Chintala soumith.ch. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. PyTorch strengthens its governance by joining the Linux Foundation – PyTorch pytorch.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Announcing the Test of Time Awards from ICLR 2016 – ICLR Blog blog.iclr.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. Meet the new Indian-origin CTO of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines - The Economic Times m.economictimes.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Meta's loss is Thinking Machines' gain | TechCrunch techcrunch.com. Checked 14 October 2026.