Tomáš Mikolov

Leading Czech scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CTU in Prague (Czech Republic)

Tomas Mikolov is a scientist working on artificial intelligence research. His main focus is statistical language models. Among his best known results are RNNLM (the world's first open source library for training neural language models) and word2vec (the first AI project released as open source by Google). He is currently the most cited Czech scientist. After years spent at US corporations like Google and Facebook, he returned to the Czech Republic in 2019, where he leads a research group at CIIRC CTU and also an AI startup.