Manuel Romero

Manuel Romero is Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Maisa AI, a Gartner-recognized leader in enterprise AI. Before building Maisa, he established himself as one of the most prolific contributors in the Hugging Face open-source ecosystem, ranking as the 5th most-downloaded individual contributor worldwide. His work spans multilingual NLP, large language models, and evaluation frameworks that help teams ship reliable AI at scale. At the intersection of research and production, Manu has spent his career turning frontier AI into systems that meet the governance, compliance, and auditability demands of regulated industries. Maisa's Digital Workers now operate in mission-critical environments for global financial institutions, with over 120 use cases running in production. He is a recognized voice in the European AI community on topics including enterprise-grade AI deployment, multilingual model development, and building AI systems that institutions can trust.