[Nomination] Emre Kurtoglu #125
Description
Select one:
- I am nominating myself for the PyTorch Ambassador Program.
- I am nominating someone else to become a PyTorch Ambassador.
Please confirm that the nominee meets the following requirements:
- The nominee is 18 years of age or older.
- The nominee agrees to abide by the PyTorch Code of Conduct.
- The nominee agrees to comply with the Linux Foundation Antitrust Policy.
- The nominee meets at least one of the qualifications listed in the PyTorch Ambassador Program Requirements.
Nominee Name
Emre Kurtoglu
Nominee Email
Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle
ekurtgl
(Optional) Organization / Affiliation
The Rockefeller University
City, State/Province, Country
New York, NY, USA
Your Name
No response
Your Email (Optional)
No response
How has the nominee contributed to PyTorch?
- An active contributor to PyTorch repositories (e.g., commits, PRs, discussions).
- A speaker at PyTorch events or workshops.
- A PyTorch user group organizer or meetup host.
- A researcher or educator using PyTorch in academic work or training.
- An active leader in the PyTorch community with at least one year of experience in:
- Organizing events (virtual/in-person).
- Speaking at AI/ML conferences.
- Mentoring others in PyTorch.
- Creating technical content (e.g., blogs, videos, tutorials).
🏆 How Would the Nominee Contribute as an Ambassador?
Hi,
I received my PhD from The Univ. of Alabama. Currently, I work as an ML engineer at The Rockefeller University's Data Science Platform (DSP). The DSP department is founded last year, and we are currently 7 ML engineers.
We collaborate with researchers from biology and neuroscience labs to advance their research. We often attend different labs' weekly meetings and try to identify projects that we can work on. Our process often includes applying SOTA ML models to their datasets where PyTorch is the main framework we use.
There are also data science related groups at the university where we can promote PyTorch's events and schedule workshop-like meetings. Time-to-time they organize Python and data visualization workshops. I think, this can be a great opportunity to engage with The Rockefeller University's researchers. Looking forward to hearing back from you!
Best,
Emre