Researcher

Francisco (Paco) Guzmán

Head of AI Research at Handshake

Francisco “Paco” Guzmán is a language-AI researcher known for helping broaden machine translation to more languages. At Meta, he co-created No Language Left Behind, a system for translating hundreds of languages, and FLORES, a test for comparing translation systems. He now leads AI research at Handshake.

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Background

Current role

Head of AI Research Jul 2025-present

Previously

2016-Jun 2025Research Scientist; Senior Research Scientist Manager,

Education

Technological Institute of Monterrey

Carnegie Mellon University

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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: September 23, 2026

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Guzmán helped broaden machine translation to more languages at Meta and now leads AI research at Handshake.

September 23, 2026

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