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Christopher Akiki

Fellow, Hugging Face

Christopher Akiki is a Hugging Face Fellow and open-source NLP contributor associated with the BigScience workshop that produced the ROOTS dataset and the BLOOM multilingual LLM. Hugging Face's Fellowship announcement highlights his BigScience involvement, sprints, workshops, and demos; he maintains a public Hugging Face profile under the handle christopher.123

At a glance

Current role
Fellow / open-source contributor
Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • Hugging Face Fellow.1
  • BigScience / BLOOM collaborator.3

BigScience and Hugging Face

Akiki participated in BigScience, the large open collaboration that trained BLOOM. Hugging Face named him a Fellow citing contributions across sprints, workshops, BigScience, and demos that expand community tooling around open multilingual LLMs.13

Timeline

  1. BigScience workshop and BLOOM training.3

Where they work

Open roles at Hugging Face (6)

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References

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

  1. Announcing the Hugging Face Fellowship ProgramHugging Face · Announcement · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  2. christopher — Hugging FaceHugging Face · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  3. BigScience: A Case Study in the Social Construction of a Multilingual LLMHugging Face Papers · Paper · accessed Oct 24, 2026