[Nomination] Sumantro Mukherjee #184
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
Sumantro Mukherjee
Nominee Email
Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle
sumantro93
(Optional) Organization / Affiliation
Red Hat
City, State/Province, Country
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Your Name
No response
Your Email (Optional)
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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?
As a PyTorch Ambassador, I aim to bridge the gap between open-source contributors and AI/ML practitioners by advocating PyTorch adoption through Fedora, CentOS and other varients. I will be focusing in creating Pytorch chapters and run events in colleges and help develop the mindset in students and professionals alike. I would also want to onboard more contributors to represent my region and retain who currently contribute to Pytorch. I would also like to work closely to expand the footprint and mindshare of Pytorch in the evolving ecosystem of AI. I plan to write blogs, create tutorials, examples and participate in technical discussions via PRs and forums.Any additional details you'd like to share?
As a Senior Quality Engineer for Fedora Project (https://getfedora.org/). I have a little over a decade of experience with open source and tech evangalism. I held multiple critical positions at the Fedora Project and Mozilla(https://www.mozilla.org/credits/) previously; ranging from App Review to Fedora Council and Mindshare member. Lately, I have spoken about Pytorch at DevconfIN with Sr. manager RHEL AI, Sudhir D. (Event report https://pytorch.org/blog/pt-fedora-os-communities/). I've authored and maintained Quick Docs - Fedora's shorthand quickstart for community to use AI (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/pytorch/). I have made PRs for Autograd,Examples and other repos.
Autograd PR (merged) : https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/151750
Examples Swin Transformer (Under Review) : https://github.com/pytorch/examples/pull/1346
Pytorch:site : https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch.github.io/pull/2024
Fedora Magazine AI Article : https://fedoramagazine.org/running-stable-diffusion-with-automatic1111-locally/
https://fedoramagazine.org/running-generative-ai-models-locally-with-ollama-and-open-webui/
I am also the Mentor and Org Admin for the Fedora Project at Google Summer of Code 2025 (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/hiavWdHr) where I am mentoring.