Andres Marafioti holds a PhD in applied machine learning, with a focus on generative methods for speech and music. Previously a senior ML engineer at Unity, he played a key role in bringing ML-based products from concept to market adoption. Now at Hugging Face, Andres leads cutting-edge research in multimodal and memory-efficient models, leading the development of SmolVLM, a state-of-the-art vision-language model.
