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Tomáš Mikolov
Tomas Mikolov at NEURON 2018
Born	(1982-10-08) October 8, 1982 (age 42) Šumperk
Citizenship	Czech
Alma mater	Brno University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Université de Montréal Microsoft Google Facebook
Thesis	Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks (2012)

Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist working in the field of machine learning. In March 2020, Mikolov became a senior research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.

Career

Mikolov obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Brno University of Technology for his work on recurrent neural network-based language models. He is the lead author of the 2013 paper that introduced the Word2vec technique in natural language processing and is an author on the FastText architecture. Mikolov came up with the idea to generate text from neural language models in 2007 and his RNNLM toolkit was the first to demonstrate the capability to train language models on large corpora, resulting in large improvements over the state of the art.

Prior to joining Facebook in 2014, Mikolov worked as a visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Université de Montréal, Microsoft and Google. He left Facebook at some time in 2019/2020 to join the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.

Mikolov has argued that humanity might be at a greater existential risk if an artificial general intelligence is not developed.

References

1. "Invited Talk at Brno University of Technology". 14 December 2016.
2. Mikolov, Tomas (2012). Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks (PDF) (PhD). Brno University of Technology.
3. Mikolov, Tomas; Chen, Kai; Corrado, Greg; Dean, Jeffrey (6 September 2013). "Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space". arXiv:1301.3781 .
4. "References · fastText". fasttext.cc. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
5. Joulin, Armand; Grave, Edouard; Bojanowski, Piotr; Mikolov, Tomas (9 August 2016). "Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification". arXiv:1607.01759 .
6. "Tomáš Mikolov Joins CIIRC CTU | RICAIP | AI". 22 May 2020.
7. "Not Creating A.I. May Be a Bigger Threat to Humanity, Says Facebook Expert". Inverse. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.

External links

• Tomáš Mikolov publications indexed by Google Scholar

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