Biography

Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis is a lawyer and researcher targeting the interactions between open source and ICT standards. He is Tech & Regulatory Affairs Counsel at Hugging Face, where he drives the efforts on Responsible AI Licensing and Regulatory Experimentation. During his PhD research at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Carlos also studied the strategic use of open source licenses in machine learning frameworks, as a core competitive factor in platform leadership. He is currently working on the implementation of regulatory sandboxes in the AI context and the setting of cross-sandbox compatibility frameworks.