[Nomination] SRISHTI GUREJA

[srishti-1110]

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Nominee Name

Srishti Gureja

Nominee Email

srishtigureja1110@gmail.com

Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle

srishti-git1110

(Optional) Organization / Affiliation

Cohere

City, State/Province, Country

Rishikesh, Uttrakhand, India

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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?

I am the most interested in:
- Doing in depth technical posts around the PyTorch ecosystem and how it all fits together including the use of its high level API (in Python of course, but also in C++ as very limited content is available on LibTorch), how to extract the best performance out of it using various optimization techniques and also blogs explaining how PyTorch works under the hood (understanding autograd in-depth has really improved me as a PyTorch coder).
- Open sourcing high quality github repos with paper implementations in PyTorch (again I want to focus on both Python and Cpp here but more on the former due to its popularity).
- Quick tips and gotcha posts on Twitter and LinkedIn eg. bugs that are hard to spot by looking like the silent failures that can occur because of tensors becoming non-leaf etc.

Any additional details you'd like to share?

Personal website: https://srishti-git1110.github.io/

I used to do a lot of PyTorch posts on LinkedIn and Twitter but linking them all here would be a spam so I'll refrain from adding them all but just do a few samples here:

1. [PyTorch DataClass, DataLoader and DataPipes which were new back then](https://wandb.ai/srishti-gureja-wandb/posts/reports/How-To-Eliminate-the-Data-Processing-Bottleneck-With-PyTorch--VmlldzoyNDMxNzM1)

2. [Named tensors and why I feel they're promising](https://x.com/srishti_gureja/status/1532734082899054592)

3. [.to, autograd and the consequences](https://x.com/srishti_gureja/status/1593607128329048065)

4. [in-place ops and consequences](https://x.com/srishti_gureja/status/1562664436413870082)

Until ~1.5 years back, I also loved to visit and help people on the PyTorch forums but I've stopped that for quite sometime now. I do plan to resume it so linking my forum profile here: https://discuss.pytorch.org/u/srishti-git1110/summary

I was also one of the recipients of the PyTorch Contributor Awards in year 2023: https://pytorch.org/ecosystem/contributor-awards-2023/

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[github-actions]

Hello Srishti Gureja,

Thank you for applying to the 2025 PyTorch Ambassador Program and for the valuable contributions you make in the PyTorch community. After careful consideration, we regret to inform you that your application was not selected in this cycle.

We encourage you to apply again in the future — the next application cycle will open in early 2026. Please keep an eye on our website for updates on the timeline: https://pytorch.org/programs/ambassadors/

We truly appreciate the time, effort, and passion you bring to the PyTorch community, and we hope to see your application again in the future.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please feel free to reach out to us at ambassadors@pytorch.org.

Best regards,
The PyTorch PMO