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Veselin Stoyanov

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Co-founder and Head of AI at Lightfield AIAdjunct Professor at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Stoyanov helped develop RoBERTa and XLM-R, influential language models that improved text understanding across tasks and languages. He later led applied AI teams at Meta and Tome and now builds AI-first customer-management software as Lightfield AI's co-founder and head of AI.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder and Head of AI Nov 2024-present
Previously
Apr 2023-Nov 2024Head of AI/ML,
Jan 2013-Nov 2022Applied Research Scientist Manager,
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026
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