Makepad

With 20+ years’ experience as a C/C++, JavaScript and more recently Rust developer, I've always been excited by using computation for visuals and audio. For this to work you need performance, and a smooth workflow enabled by the right tooling. After having everything I wanted with C except stable code I moved to JavaScript and web technologies. However, this never got to the point of being able to make fast applications that use modern CPU and GPU power. Now with Rust we have a new chance. I've been an entrepreneur my entire life building VJ software in the 00's, then web UI technology and web IDEs with Cloud9, and am now reimagining the developer workflow in Rust with Makepad.

Red Bean Software

I'm a Free software developer. I'm interested in programming languages, from theory down to the bits, Japanese language, culture, and food, music, biology, and astronomy. I have an unfortunate addiction to political blogs, and love a good argument.

OpenCV

Gary Bradski is an American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Industrial Perception, a company that developed perception applications for industrial robotic application (since acquired by Google in 2012) and has worked on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as published a book on that library.

Project Taffy & Blitz

Nico is currently working on creating an ecosystem of crates for building UI frameworks and web engines in Rust through his work on the Taffy, Blitz and Servo projects (building on his previous experience with UI as a full-stack web developer). His work has a focus on modularity and fostering collaboration/coordination between projects wherever possible.

Hugging Face

I build next-gen robots at Hugging Face. Before, I was a research scientist at Tesla on Autopilot and Optimus. Academically, I did some postdoctoral studies at Brown University and my PhD at Sorbonne. My scientific interest lies in understanding the underlying mechanisms of intelligence. My research is focused on learning human behaviors with neural networks. I am working on novel architectures, learning approaches, theoritical frameworks and explainability methods. I like to contribute to open-source projects and to read about neuroscience!

Dimforge

Sébastien Crozet has been in love with the Rust programming language since its earliest days. He is the creator and maintainer of popular open-source libraries, including nalgebra and Rapier, for the Rust ecosystem that specialize in linear algebra, geometry, and physics. He is the founder of Dimforge where he focuses on developing the future of geometry and physics for engineering, games, and the metaverse.

The Khronos Group

Dennis Fu currently works for Khronos Group as a regional VP in charge of business development in China and part of Asia region. The Khronos Group is a global technology standards consortium which was founded in year 2000 in U.S.. Khronos develops API and other technology standards in many areas including computer vision, 3D computer graphics, heterogeneous computing, 3D commerce, AR/VR, sensor, Metaverse, and other related areas. Dennis has over 30 years of working experience in technology industries in the area of smart phone and wireless communications, car connectivity, analog/digital semiconductor, and other related subjects. Dennis graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, followed by a master's degree in electrical engineering from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a master's degree in business administration from the University of San Diego. Currently he lives in Shanghai, China.

咪咕文化科技有限公司

高山，毕业于浙江大学，就职于中国移动咪咕北京研究院，担任高级前端开发总监。专注于前端与音视频开发10余年，在视频彩铃、数字人、云渲染、三维视频等多项目从事核心研发工作，致力于下一代视频在前端领域交叉应用与实践。

Shanghai AI Laboratory

Jianfei is a senior engineer at Shanghai AI Laboratory, the core developer of InternLM and related toolboxes. He leads teams to develop several open-source software, such as MMRazor (model compression toolbox), XTuner (high-performance training system), and the quantization module of LMDeploy (high-performance inference engine). He is currently focused on the design of large model structures, as well as large model inference and training systems, hoping to enhance the R&D efficiency of the community through high-performance open-source software.

Sarif

Freelance embedded engineer that designs the entire device, from PCB design to firmware development. Has been using Rust since 2017, and is a board member of RustNL, the Dutch foundation to promote Rust.

Rust Doc Project

Rust language reviewer and contributor, rustdoc team leader.

NLnet Foundation

Bob Goudriaan is Director and Chairman of the Board of NLnet Foundation. In this capacity he leads various NGI Zero projects, all part of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet initiative. Goudriaan was previously partner and co-founder of the Amsterdam based management consultancy Gendo, specialised in technological innovation. Since 2014 he is also involved with the information security company Radically Open Security, a socially driven enterprise. Goudriaan holds a master’s degree (LL.M.) from Leiden University, and held senior positions with large organisations like PWC and Deloitte across the globe. He is a certified Data Protection Officer. Goudriaan is active in a number of national and international organisations, such Digital Infrastructure The Netherlands (board member) and OpenDoc Society (treasurer).

Matrix

Matthew is project lead and co-founder of Matrix - the open source project that aims to be the secure communication layer of the open Web. Matthew’s day job is CEO/CTO at Element, the company formed by the team who created Matrix in order to help fund their work on Matrix

Tsinghua University

Liu Huaping is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, director of the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, and chairman of the Intelligent Automation Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation. He serves as the Area Chairman of Robotics Sciences and Systems (RSS) and Senior Editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research. The main research direction is multi-modal perception, learning and control technology of intelligent robots.

Dioxus Labs

Jonathan Kelley is the founder of Dioxus Labs and the creator of the Rust frontend framework Dioxus. Before Dioxus, he used to work as a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare building 1.1.1.1 and WARP.

JUCR

Free Software developer, Ecomodernist, into Rust, flying, and EVs. Maintainer of Rust zbus crate.

Wild Linker Project

David is an independent Rust developer with an interest in developer tools and productivity. He’s written EVCXR, a REPL and Jupyter kernel for Rust, Cackle, a Rust code permission checking tool and most recently Wild, a linker.

ByteDance

Tech Lead of PICO XR Runtime in ByteDance, graduated from Zhejiang University, deeply involved in the XR field for many years. Currently mainly focuing on the design and development of MR (Mixed Reality) functions in the XR Runtime field, as well as the design and development of MR Native SDK. Led the team to achieve an important breakthrough in PICO MR Runtime from 0 to 1, continued to enhance MR functions and improve performance, and at the same time, empowered developers to build immersive MR experiences through MR SDK to enrich the XR ecosystem. In the field of Khronos OpenXR standardization, as one of the core contributors to MR-related EXT (Cross-Vendor) Extension, deeply involved in the formulation of related OpenXR standard extensions, and contributed a number of BD Vendor Extensions, and continued to promote the XR cross-platform development ecosystem. / 字节跳动 PICO XR Runtime 技术负责人，毕业于浙江大学，多年XR领域开发经验。当前主要专注于 XR Runtime MR (Mixed Reality) 领域的业务功能设计与开发，以及 MR Native SDK 的设计与研发工作。带领团队实现了 PICO MR Runtime 从0到1的重要突破，持续对 MR 功能进行完善并提升性能，通过 SDK 将丰富的 MR 能力开放给开发者，不断完善 XR 开发生态。在Khronos OpenXR标准化领域，作为 MR 相关EXT（Cross-Vendor） Extension的核心贡献者之一，深度参与相关OpenXR标准扩展的制定工作，同时完成了多项BD Vendor Extension的设计与开发工作，持续推进XR跨平台开发生态建设。

Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society

Dr. Shaoshan Liu is currently the director of Embodied Artificial Intelligence at Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS). Dr. Shaoshan Liu’s background is a unique combination of technology, entrepreneurship, and public policy, which enables him to take on great global challenges. On technology, Dr. Shaoshan Liu has published 4 textbooks, more than 100 research papers, and holds more than 150 patents in autonomous systems. On entrepreneurship, Dr. Shaoshan Liu has been the CEO of PerceptIn and has commercially deployed autonomous micro-mobility services in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China etc. He is also the Asia Chair of IEEE Entrepreneurship. On public policy, Dr. Shaoshan Liu has served on the World Economic Forum’s panel on Industry Response to Government Procurement Policy, is leading the Autonomous Machine Computing roadmap under IEEE International Roadmap of Devices and Systems (IRDS) and is a member of the ACM U.S. Technology Policy Council, and a member of National Academy of Public Administration’s Technology Leadership Panel Advisory Group. Dr. Shaoshan Liu’s educational background includes a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from U.C. Irvine, and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard Kennedy School. He is an elected member of the Global Young Academy, an IEEE Senior Member, an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.

Rust Project

Jane Losare-Lusby is a seasoned contributor to the Rust project, having been involved since 2018. She has made significant contributions across several teams, including Clippy, Libraries, and Style. Jane led the Error Handling project group and served as a board member of the Rust Foundation as the Project Director of Collaboration. Currently, she is focusing her efforts on the Compiler team, where she is working on building support for locally stored metrics into the Rust compiler.

ZettaScale

Julien Loudet is working at ZettaScale Technology where he leads both the Eclipse Zenoh-Flow project and the Storage Replication functionality of Eclipse Zenoh. He holds a Ph.D. during which he focused on Security in Distributed Systems.

Good Robot

Alan Majer is the founder of Good Robot (currently working on a project with the Linux Foundation). For the first half of his career, Alan worked as a technology researcher and writer, helping to identify cutting-edge technology and business innovations. Today, Alan works with technology hands on, exploring the potential of artificial intelligence, robotics, and immersive experiences. The result is exciting new opportunities to innovate and transform user experiences, and the ability to combine strategy and research activities with a real-world approach to their implementation. Alan is an active member of the local “maker” scene, frequenting spaces like HackLab.TO and InterAccess. He has filed 2 patents, and holds an MBA from McGill University.

Infineon

Tiago Manczak holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology – Parana (UTFPR). Since 2017, he has been working at Infineon Technologies in the Connected Security Devices division as an embedded software engineer. In this role, he has been responsible for developing non-volatile memory drivers, as well as customer personalization and field update solutions for security controllers. As a passionate advocate for the Rust programming language, Tiago has been instrumental in coordinating the rollout of tools and firmware stacks to bring Rust to productive projects. Additionally, he is the organizer of the Augsburg Rust Meetup, where he promotes the adoption of Rust in the industry

Rust Compiler Project

Nicholas is a long-term contributor to the Rust compiler and author of the Rust Performance Book. He previously worked at Mozilla, where he led multiple technical efforts to improve Firefox's performance and reliability and managed the Low-Level Tools team. He has also worked for Apple and National ICT Australia. He co-won a Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for the paper "Valgrind: a Framework for Heavyweight Dynamic Binary Instrumentation" which was based on work done during his PhD. He has particular interests in code performance, correctness, clarity, and has built several widely-used profiling tools. He currently works full-time on the Rust compiler for Futurewei Technologies.

Mainmatter

Hi, My name is Henk. I have been developing Rust since fall 2018, and am currently working at Mainmatter as a senior Rust software engineer, and am member of the Rust Embedded Working Group. I use Rust for my daily activities, which I see as a blessing: in the conservative embedded world, there are not a lot of Rust jobs. Apart from writing software, I love teaching people to write software using Rust. This I do by giving professional training at other companies, but also by developing teach-rs (pronounced 'teachers'): a Rust university course. I ran this course during the spring of 2023, and it has been a blast.

Blog OS Project

Philipp Oppermann is a freelance Rust developer from Germany. He is working on the Dora robotic framework and on various projects related to operating system development in Rust. Philipp is the author of the "Writing an OS in Rust" blog and the main editor of the "This Month in Rust OSDev" newsletter.

Rust Cargo Project

Ed is a member of the Cargo team and maintains many crates, including toml, clap, and cargo-release.

Eclipse Foundation

Michael Plagge joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 and is now working as VP Ecosystem Development. In a previous life he started his career as software developer in the area of automotive software before he changed to the dark side of business development. Here he held various business development positions in companies like Elektrobit, Alibaba and Alibaba Cloud and spent 3 years as General Manager Elektrobit Automotive (Shanghai) Ltd. in China.

Embodied AI Foundation

Dr. German Ros serves as Executive Director of the CARLA organization at the non-profit Embodied AI Foundation. He is also Director of Simulation Ecosystem Development at NVIDIA Dr. Ros is passionate about enabling safe autonomous systems by building modern simulation platforms to accelerate development and validation cycles. Dr Ros’ work intersects areas such as simulation for autonomous systems, AI, 3D computer vision, and computer graphics. Dr. Ros has driven large open-source projects such as the CARLA Autonomous Driving simulator, and the Open3D processing library. Dr. Ros has also served as Director for Autonomous Agents Research at Intel, leading a distributed and multi-disciplinary team to develop new technologies in the areas of digital twins and simulation.. Before Intel, Dr. Ros was a research scientist at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the Computer Vision Center and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2016).

WyeWorks

Santiago Pastorino has been contributing to the Rust project since 2017. He is a Rust compiler team contributor, types team member, project director for the Rust foundation and a member of Futurewei Rust team. Jack Huey is a PhD student who has been a member of the Rust Project since 2019. First contributing to Chalk and then later to the compiler itself, his passion in Rust is type system design and experimentation. He currently co-leads the types team, is a member of the compiler team, is a lang team advisor, and is the lang the representative for the leadership council.

Creator of Corrosion-rs

Jonathan Schwender is a software engineer at the Huawei Dresden Research Center. He has been working on projects for the Hongmeng kernel, the trusted execution environment SDK and the OpenHarmony OS. Jonathan is also opensource maintainer of Corrosion - a CMake module that integrates cargo into the CMake build system - and of libvsync - a library of efficient concurrent data structures for low-level programming.

FOSS Technology Consulting (Shanghai)

I have contributed to Servo since 2016. I became a reviewer in 2019, and have been a founding member of the Technical Steering Committee since 2020. The script component, as well as the overall architecture of Servo, has been my priority over the years.

Rust Project Lang/Libs/Cargo Teams

Dr. Josh Triplett is a developer on the Rust project, working on the language, standard library, and Cargo package manager. Josh cares about building welcoming, inclusive communities that lift people up. Josh loves building solutions to systemic problems. In his mythical "spare time", Josh works on fast build systems, using Rust.

Trifecta Tech Foundation

At Tweede Golf Folkert works on using rust in critical infrastructure, e.g. time synchronization, secure communication and data compression. He enjoys working on compilers and making programs go fast.

Northeastern University

Yanzhi Wang is currently an associate professor and faculty fellow at Dept. of ECE at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California in 2014. His research interests focus on model compression and platform-specific acceleration of deep learning applications. His work has been published broadly in top conference and journal venues (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, PLDI, ICS, PACT, ISSCC, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, IJCAI, ECCV, ICDM, ACM MM, FPGA, LCTES, CCS, VLDB, PACT, ICDCS, RTAS, Infocom, C-ACM, JSSC, TComputer, TCAS-I, TCAD, TCAS-I, JSAC, TNNLS, etc.), and has been cited above 18,000 times. He has received six Best Paper and Top Paper Awards, and one Communications of the ACM cover featured article.

AutoGen

Dr. Qingyun Wu is an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University. Qingyun did a one-year postdoc at Microsoft Research NYC Lab and got her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2020. Qingyun received the 2019 SIGIR Best Paper Award, and ICLR 2024 LLM agent workshop Best Paper Award. Qingyun is the creator and one of the core maintainers of AutoGen, a leading programming framework for agentic AI applications.

Alibaba Xianyu Tech

阿里巴巴高级无线技术专家， 闲鱼终端架构负责人

XVERSE Technology Inc.

John Xuan is the Head of Algorithms for the XVERSE LLM, leading the research and open-source development of XVERSE LLM. Previously, he was a Senior Expert Engineer at Tencent and has over a decade of extensive experience in natural language processing, with applications in web search, WeChat public account articles, and smart speakers. Additionally, he served as the AI technology lead for 3D FPS character simulation games, spearheading the industry’s first large-scale implementation of FPS character AI. He graduated from the NLP Laboratory of Harbin Institute of Technology.

Tsinghua University

Kaichao is currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Mingsheng Long in School of Software. He is working on the vLLM project during his visit to UC Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Ion Stoica. He serves as a core committer in the vLLM project, working on the distributed inference architecture of vLLM.

HPC-AI Tech

Yang You is a Presidential Young Professor at National University of Singapore. He is on an early career track at NUS for exceptional young academic talents with great potential to excel. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. His advisor is Prof. James Demmel, who was the former chair of the Computer Science Division and EECS Department. Yang You's research interests include Parallel/Distributed Algorithms, High Performance Computing, and Machine Learning. The focus of his current research is scaling up deep neural networks training on distributed systems or supercomputers. In 2017, his team broke the world record of ImageNet training speed, which was covered by the technology media like NSF, ScienceDaily, Science NewsLine, and i-programmer. In 2019, his team broke the world record of BERT training speed. The BERT training techniques have been used by many tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Yang You’s LARS and LAMB optimizers are available in industry benchmark MLPerf. He is a winner of IPDPS 2015 Best Paper Award (0.8%), ICPP 2018 Best Paper Award (0.3%), AAAI 2023 Distinguished Paper Award (0.7%), and ACM/IEEE George Michael HPC Fellowship. Yang You is a Siebel Scholar and a winner of Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize. Yang You was nominated by UC Berkeley for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2 out of 81 Berkeley EECS PhD students graduated in 2020). He also made Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list (2021) for young leaders and IEEE-CS TCHPC early career award. In 2023, He won the Forbes China 100 most influential Chinese award and Hurun China Under35s 2023. He is on the 2024 "Fortune" China's 40 business elites under 40 years old list.

ZettaScale

Yuyuan Yuan is a software engineer at ZettaScale. He's passionate about Rust and enjoy the open-source community, always exploring new technologies!

University of Oxford

Dr. Rui Zhao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He works in the EWADA project (Ethical Web and Data Architecture in the Age of AI; https://ewada.ox.ac.uk/), led by Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Prof. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, with a close connection to decentralised architectures like Solid (Social Linked Data). His main research is centred around a) the connection between user autonomy and privacy-preserving computation, and b) facilitating data governance in decentralised multi-stakeholder contexts, through formal Data Terms of Use. Rui is interested in distributed/decentralised systems, formal modelling and reasoning, user autonomy, and balancing individuals' and societal collective interests. Before Oxford, Rui received his PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Malcolm Atkinson, where he worked on formal modelling and automated reasoning of data-use policies (/ data-governance rules) in decentralised research contexts (eScience). He obtained his master degree in 2017 also at the University of Edinburgh, and his bachelor's degree from Northwest A&F University (2016).

Zhipu AI

Qinkai Zheng, Technical Lead of the CodeGeeX Team at Zhipu AI, focuses on research in large code generation models. He has published over ten papers in conferences like NeurIPS、KDD, and won the gold medal in the KDD CUP 2020. As the lead author of the CodeGeeX series models, he has accumulated over 16,000 stars on GitHub.

BAAI

In 2022, he joined the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), focusing on the training and algorithm optimization of large language models (LLMs). He was mainly responsible for algorithmic work during the pretraining and post-pretraining stages. During this period, he led and participated in the design and development of BAAI's in-house LLM, the Aquila series, and played a key role in the continuous open-sourcing of the Aquila models. Additionally, he was a major contributor to several open-source projects at BAAI, including FlagAI and FlagScale.

Beihang University

Yaowei Zheng, Ph.D. of Beihang University. He has published papers as the first author in international conferences such as ACL, CVPR, AAAI, WWW, and served as a reviewer for conferences and journals such as AAAI, EMNLP, and Neural Computation. He has won the first prize of Huawei Cup Mathematical Modeling, the first prize of Blue Bridge Cup, Beihang Model, and Beihang Doctoral Freshman Scholarship. He created LLaMA Factory, a popular LLM training framework, which has received over 30,000 Stars at GitHub. He was invited to the Artificial Intelligence Computing Conference, Alibaba Cloud AI Summit, Renmin University of China, and Zhipu AI to give a keynote speech on large language models.