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10 Hugging Face research scientists
These ten current and former Hugging Face research scientists hold or held research scientist, researcher or AI scientist roles at the company. A reader can learn what research scientist work at Hugging Face involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Antun Skurić
LinkedInExperience: Researcher · Hugging Face
Researcher at Hugging Face in Zurich since 2025, a role a highlight describes as setting up a research direction on the environmental impacts of robotics and AI and working on open-source robotics with the Pollen Robotics team. Antun Skurić was Research And Development Engineer at Pollen Robotics (2024–2025).
Avijit Ghosh, PhD
LinkedInExperience: Lead Technical AI Policy Researcher · Hugging Face
Lead Technical AI Policy Researcher at Hugging Face since 2026 and Applied Policy Researcher there from 2024; their summary names AI evaluations, through leading the EvalEval Coalition, and AI for science as their current focus. Avijit Ghosh is also a research affiliate at the University of Connecticut.
Clément Romac
LinkedInExperience: Former Research Scientist · Hugging Face
Research Scientist at Hugging Face (2022–2026), a role a highlight describes as studying how autonomous deep RL agents can use large language models. Clément Romac has been Research Engineer at Inria since 2026 and was a PhD student at Inria over the same period as the Hugging Face role.
David Louapre
LinkedInExperience: AI Scientist & Educator · Hugging Face
AI Scientist & Educator at Hugging Face since 2025, a role a highlight ties to open research and education in machine learning with a focus on interpretability of open-source large language models. David Louapre was Scientific Director, Player Facing Generative AI at Ubisoft (2023–2025).
Edward Beeching
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Hugging Face
Research Scientist at Hugging Face since 2022; their summary says their research is predominantly RLHF, embodied learning and LLM tool use, following a PhD in deep reinforcement learning for robotic navigation. Edward Beeching was Senior Geophysicist and Project Leader at PGS (2011–2016).
Jean-Benoit Delbrouck
LinkedInExperience: Former AI Researcher · Hugging Face
AI Researcher at Hugging Face in Palo Alto (2024–2025), according to their profile. Jean-Benoit Delbrouck has been AI Researcher at Eden since 2026, was AI Researcher at HOPPR (2025–2026) and held academic research staff roles at Stanford University (2023–2025).
Margaret Mitchell
LinkedInExperience: Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist · Hugging Face
Researcher and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face since 2021, according to their profile. Margaret Mitchell was Staff Research Scientist at Google (2020–2021), Senior Research Scientist at Google (2016–2020) and Researcher at Microsoft (2013–2016).
Maxime Ellerbach
LinkedInExperience: Artificial Intelligence Researcher · Hugging Face
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Hugging Face since 2026, with a headline naming robotics at Hugging Face. Maxime Ellerbach was CTO of Vertical Shelter in 2025 and President of L'Atelier (2024–2026), according to their profile, and is based in France.
Teven Le Scao
LinkedInExperience: Former Research Scientist · Hugging Face
Research Scientist at Hugging Face in Paris (2020–2023), a role their profile lists in the research department. Teven Le Scao has been Research Scientist at Mistral since 2023, and was Data Scientist at Inato in 2017 and Data Scientist at Projectiv in 2016, according to their profile.
Yacine Jernite
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Researcher · Hugging Face
Machine Learning Researcher at Hugging Face since 2020 and Head of Machine Learning and Society there since 2023, according to their profile. Yacine Jernite was Postdoctoral Researcher at Meta (2018–2020) and is based in Brooklyn, New York, according to their profile.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does doing research in the open, with public models and datasets, change how a research project is run?
- 02How do researchers at an open-source AI company choose which problems to work on?
- 03What does a research result need before it is released to the community as a model, dataset or paper?
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