Hello fellow human 👋

I'm a scientific software engineer at Quansight working on PyTorch. I'm very active in the torchvision library and maintain the torchvision.datasets module there.

Outside of my work I have two major areas of interest:

1. 🎨 Neural Style Transfer: During my research towards a PhD, I fell in love with Neural Style Transfer. I realized pretty soon that the available tooling is insufficient. Out of frustration with all the existing solutions, I wrote my own library for Neural Style Transfer based on PyTorch: pystiche.
2. 💻 Developer Experience: Having worked on PyTorch and having written a library based on PyTorch I realized there are a few pain points for me. So I started some projects to make my life and hopefully everyone elses easier:
   • pytest-pytorch: PyTorch's test suite is only partially compatible with pytest. This is a small plugin to make them play ball.
   • light-the-torch: Installing pure Python libraries that depend on PyTorch is quite frustrating, since pip has no option to detect the available computation backends (CUDA, ROCm) and install the correct PyTorch binary. This is a small drop-in replacement for pip install to make it happen.
   • pytorch-pip-shim: Next evolutional step after light-the-torch: invasive, but with a better UX. Install once and never worry again.

• 💬 Ask me about: Python, PyTorch, Neural Style Transfer
• 📫 How to reach me: Open an issue in my personal repository.
• 😄 Pronouns: he/him/his