Biography:Tomas Mikolov

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Short description: Czech computer scientist


Tomáš Mikolov
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Tomas Mikolov at NEURON 2018
Born1982
Šumperk
CitizenshipCzech
Alma materBrno University of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsGoogle & Facebook

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.[1]

Career

Mikolov obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Brno University of Technology for his work on recurrent neural network-based language models.[2][3]

Prior to joining Facebook in 2014, Mikolov worked as a visiting researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Université de Montréal, Microsoft and Google.[citation needed] He left Facebook at some time in 2019/2020 to join the CIIRC.[4]

Mikolov has argued that humanity might be at a greater existential risk if an artificial general intelligence is not developed.[5]

References

  1. "Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics". https://www.cvut.cz/en/czech-institute-of-informatics-robotics-and-cybernetics. 
  2. "Invited Talk at Brno University of Technology". http://vgs-it.fit.vutbr.cz/2016/12/14/tomas-mikolov-neural-networks-for-natural-language-processing/. 
  3. Mikolov, Tomas (2012). Statistical Language Models Based on Neural Networks (PDF) (PhD). Brno University of Technology.
  4. http://ricaip.eu/tomas-mikolov-joins-ciirc-ctu/
  5. "Not Creating A.I. May Be a Bigger Threat to Humanity, Says Facebook Expert". https://www.inverse.com/article/48391-not-creating-a-i-may-be-a-bigger-threat-to-humanity-says-facebook-expert. 

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