Tomas Mikolov


Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist working in the field of machine learning. He is currently a Research Scientist at Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.
Mikolov has made several contributions to the field of deep learning and natural language processing. He is mostly known as the inventor of the famous Word2vec method of word embedding.

Career

Mikolov obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Brno University of Technology for his work on recurrent neural network-based language models.
Prior to joining Facebook in 2014, Mikolov worked as a visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Université de Montréal, Microsoft and Google.
Mikolov has diminished the existential risk from artificial general intelligence by arguing that humanity might be at a greater risk if an artificial general intelligence is not developed.