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École Polytechnique
ENS Paris-Saclay
New York University
Julien ChaumondCo-founder and CTO · Hugging FaceResearcher↗YJ
Researcher · Executive
Yacine Jernite
Hugging FaceHead of Machine Learning and Society
Jernite works on the social, ethical, and regulatory context of machine learning, including data documentation, governance, and responsible LLM development; he co-organized the BigScience workshop and its data efforts. He earned his PhD at NYU under David Sontag. He is Head of Machine Learning and Society at Hugging Face.
Career & education
Current role
Head of Machine Learning and Society
Previously
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.
citations30,187As of Jun 15, '26
citations+6,904Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
Selected contributions
Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
With Thomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, Julien Chaumond, Clément Delangue, Anthony Moi, Pierric Cistac and others ·Presented Hugging Face's Transformers library for using, adapting and sharing pretrained language models.
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