[Nomination] Zhiqing Xiao #180
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
Zhiqing Xiao
Nominee Email
Nominee's GitHub or GitLab Handle
ZhiqingXiao
(Optional) Organization / Affiliation
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City, State/Province, Country
Beijing, China
Your Name
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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?
The nominee will work closely with PyTorch foundation and leverage his existing experiences and resources to achieve the foundation’s priorities.
The nominee is one of the earliest third-party PyTorch-related content providers, and generated and circulated many PyTorch-related news and tutorials, which made substantial impacts among AI developers in East Asia.
1. The nominee founded the WeChat subscription account "pytorcher" in 2018, which is the second-largest WeChat subscription account that focuses on PyTorch. It currently has ~9k subscribers. Example post: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_znyJ6kML-6QZDQeEvFN6w, which got ~2.6k complete views since its publishing in 2025.
2. The nominee is the sole administrator and maintainer of many QQ groups (WeChat and QQ are the two most populous social media in East Asia), including groups that focusing on PyTorch (698847007, 657340455, 415053557) and groups that focusing on AI (935702193, 243613392, 948110103, etc.), covering ~2k AI developers in total. Amongst, the group 698847007 was the QQ group that collected the largest total amount of group entrance fee among groups that focus on PyTorch learning, before QQ removed the feature that allowed group owners to set a fee for entering a group.
3. The nominee is the sole contributor of many PyTorch-related tutorial books and related GitHub repos, including (1) the GitHub repo https://github.com/ZhiqingXiao/pytorch-book and related book “Application of Neural Network and PyTorch”, which is the first hard-copy tutorial book on PyTorch 1; and (2) the GitHub repo https://github.com/ZhiqingXiao/rl-book and the related book, which provides the implementation of many mainstream RL algorithm based on PyTorch, and was one of the best-selling RL tutorial books in East Asia.
4. The nominee maintains close relationship with many media and publishers, and has many successful experiences to work with them to circulate technical tutorials and news. The medium post https://medium.com/pytorch/e1381bdce0a5, written by the nominee, was the first medium post that introduced the usage of PyTorch in Chinese mainland. The nominee also provided virtual courses (example in SpringerNature Link: https://link.springer.com/video/10.1007/978-981-99-3740-0) and presentations (example in Tencent Cloud University: https://cloud.tencent.com/edu/learning/live-2060) in online learning platforms. An interview of the nominee by CSDN, one of the largest developer networks in East Asia, was viewed for 20k+ times (link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9VipbHM6JPS4uECvvOhjBQ).