Program Committee

Lysandre is the Chief Open-Source Officer at Hugging Face; ensuring that the ecosystem is as well supported as possible in the ML lifecycle, with open-source tools. He has been at Hugging Face for the past six years and was the first open-source employee at Hugging Face; working on transformers and the entire stack of Hugging Face open-source libraries since then.

Masahiro Hiramori (mshr-h) is a Head Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric and a PyTorch Ambassador. He works on on-device AI and edge LLMs, contributing to open-source AI development and its adoption in industry.

Dr. Kazuaki Ishizaki is a senior technical staff member at IBM Research – Tokyo. He has over 30 years of experience of conducting research and development of compilers for Java and other languages. He is an expert in compiler optimizations, runtime systems, and parallel processing. He has been working for IBM Java just-in-time compiler and virtual machine from JDK 1.0. He is an Apache Spark and Arrow committer. He gave multiple presentations at OSS conferences, for example, six years in a row at Data+AI Summit. He is also a contributor of PyTorch. He is an ACM distinguished member.