# vLLM names three contributors to 2026 PyTorch Foundation awards

> Original title: Congratulations to the vLLM contributors recognized with 2026 PyTorch Foundation Contributor Awards!

- Source: vLLM
- Published: 2026-11-03T23:24:15.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/hdgtrugejibhu627195rfeldw
- Original: https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2117759795180810280

## Summary

The vLLM project congratulates Jiangyun Zhu, Harry Mellor, and Wentao Ye, who received 2026 PyTorch Foundation Contributor Awards in the Newcomer, Catalyst, and Review Powerhouse categories. The PyTorch Foundation recognized the winners at PyTorchCon 2026 for work across projects including PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors. vLLM also says Jiangyun Zhu was named an NVIDIA Valuable Professional for China Developers.

## Post

Congratulations to the vLLM contributors recognized with 2026 PyTorch Foundation Contributor Awards!

• Jiangyun Zhu (@jiangyun_zhu): Newcomer
• Harry Mellor (@hmellor_): Catalyst
• Wentao Ye: Review Powerhouse

A special shoutout to Jiangyun at Inferact, who has also been named an @nvidia Valuable Professional for China Developers (NVP).

Thank you, Jiangyun, Harry, and Wentao, for the work you put into vLLM. We’re proud to build alongside you.

## Quoted post @PyTorch

> Congratulations to the 2026 PyTorch Contributor Award winners, recognized today at #PyTorchCon 2026 for their innovation, collaboration, and impact across all PyTorch Foundation projects including PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors.
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> Outstanding Ambassador: Jiho Kim
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> Newcomer: Jiangyun Zhu (@jiangyun_zhu), Johannes Lennart Zeiser
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> Knowledge Enhancer: Abdulsalam Yazid Bande (@abdulsalambande), Suman Debnath (@_sumand)
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> Bug Buster: Guilherme Vieira Leobas, Vishal Goyal
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> Review Powerhouse: Wentao Ye
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> Catalyst: Jiahao Tan, Harry Mellor (@hmellor_)
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> Innovator: Masahiro Tanaka, Elfie Guo, Xinan Lin
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> Ecosystem Champion: Guangye Yu
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> Superhero: Thomas Ortner
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> Nominees: Chandra Mohan Singh Negi, Arun Bhandari, Masahiro Hiramori, Luka Govedič, Irakli Salia, Jiahao Chen, Kunshang Ji, Rohit Kumar Tiwari, Subin George, Xunzhuo Liu, and Aaron Gokaslan.
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> Thank you to Cara Delia (@RedHat) and Chris Gottbrath (Gottbrath Technologies) for presenting the awards, and to Red Hat (@RedHat) for sponsoring them.
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> And thank you to our 2026 Awards Committee: Chris Gottbrath (Gottbrath Technologies), Chris Hoge (@nvidia), Ashok Emani (@intel), Piotr Bialecki (@nvidia), Yashasvi Misra (@CloudNativeFdn), Sudhir Dharanendraiah (@RedHat), Zesheng Zong (@Huawei), Jiawei Li, and Kaichao You (@inferact).

https://x.com/PyTorch/status/2113017042278175045