Stanford University
MIT
Julien ChaumondCo-founder and CTO · Hugging FaceResearcher↗Both at Hugging Face
Founder · Engineer · Researcher
Abubakar Abid
Head of Applications at Hugging Face
Abubakar Abid co-founded Gradio, an open-source tool that lets developers turn AI models into interactive web apps. His research also exposed anti-Muslim bias in language models and developed ways to explain model mistakes.
Career & education
Current roleHugging FaceSep 2025-presentHead of Applications
Hugging FaceSep 2025-presentPreviously
GradioDec 2018-Nov 2021CEO & Co-founder
GradioDec 2018-Nov 2021Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations11,480As of Oct 14, '26
Selected contributions
Gradio: Hassle-Free Sharing and Testing of ML Models in the Wild
Introduced Gradio, an open-source tool for turning machine learning models into simple web interfaces, letting collaborators try models on their own data and give feedback without writing code.
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