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Albert Villanova

Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face

Albert Villanova del Moral is a machine learning engineer at Hugging Face and a maintainer of the Datasets library. His CV lists him as co-chair of the Data Tooling working group in the BigScience project. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics and previously worked as a data scientist in finance and consulting before joining Hugging Face in 2021.12

At a glance

Current role
Machine Learning Engineer
Sources cited
2
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • Maintainer of Hugging Face Datasets library.1
  • BigScience Data Tooling working group co-chair.1

Datasets and BigScience

Since April 2021 Villanova has maintained Hugging Face Datasets and helped lead BigScience data tooling—critical infrastructure for loading, sharing, and documenting ML datasets at scale across the open-source community.1

Timeline

  1. Joined Hugging Face as ML engineer.1

Where they work

Open roles at Hugging Face (6)

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References

2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026

  1. CV | Albert Villanova del MoralAlbert Villanova · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  2. albertvillanova — Hugging FaceHugging Face · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026