Bio
Yacine Jernite is Head of Machine Learning and Society at Hugging Face where they lead a multidisciplinary team working on the social and regulatory context of Machine Learning systems, models, and datasets. They have worked on several aspects of data curation, documentation, and governance, including by coordinating data and multidisciplinary research efforts within the BigScience workshop on Large Language Models. Before joining Hugging Face, Yacine obtained a Ph.D. from New York University working on language modeling and medical applications of machine learning from 2012 to 2018, followed by a postdoc at FAIR NY (Meta AI) working on automatic summarization and abstractive question answering from 2018 to 2020.