Francisco Guzmán
Head Of Research at Handshake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Guzmán is a research leader with 11+ years driving state-of-the-art multilingual and generative AI efforts, currently Head of Research at Handshake AI and formerly a Senior Research Scientist Manager at Meta. He led post-training work that helped scale Llama 3.x releases and managed teams that produced models downloaded millions of times. Earlier work at FAIR focused on breaking language barriers through high-impact projects like SeamlessM4T and No Language Left Behind, both published in Nature, and FLORES (EMNLP). His background spans academic rigor (PhD, CMU research stay) and applied engineering, from statistical machine translation to large-scale model deployment. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs deep NLP expertise with product-minded execution and a record of turning research into widely used open-source resources. An understated detail: his trajectory began in physics and software architecture, giving him a rare blend of quantitative foundations and systems design.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology and Communications; Intelligent Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Technology and Communications; Intelligent Systems at Tecnológico de MonterreyExchange Program Physics, Exchange Program Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignResearch Stay Statistical Machine Translation, Research Stay Statistical Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster's degree in Engineering Software Architecture and Design, Master's degree in Engineering Software Architecture and Design at EPF Engineering School
Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
benchmark10
facebook10
artificial-intelligence8
sequence-to-sequence8
pytorch8
python8
ai6
readable6
nlp3
natural-language-processing3
command-line-tool1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
facebookresearch/flores
Feb 2019 - May 2022
Facebook Low Resource (FLoRes) MT Benchmark
Contributions:11 reviews, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 3 months
benchmarklow-resourcefacebook
guzmanhe/guzmanhe.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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