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Rethinking Open Source Contribution in the Age of AI Agents, featuring vLLM Core Maintainer Roger Wang at MLSys 2026

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Grace Gong
May 26, 2026
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At MLSys 2026, I attended Roger Wang’s talk on “Rethinking Open Source Contribution in the Age of AI Agents.”

Roger is a software engineer focused on machine learning research and systems. He is a core maintainer of vLLM and the lead maintainer of vLLM-Omni, where he works on infrastructure for large multimodal and omni-modality models. He also recently …

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