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.

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Tomáš Mikolov
Tomas Mikolov at NEURON 2018
Born	1982 Šumperk
Citizenship	Czech
Alma mater	Brno University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University Université de Montréal Microsoft Google Facebook

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Mikolov obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Brno University of Technology for his work on recurrent neural network-based language models.^[1][2] He is the lead author of the 2013 paper that introduced the Word2vec technique in natural language processing^[3] and is an author on the FastText architecture.^[4][5] 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.https://towardsdatascience.com/uncovering-the-pioneering-journey-of-word2vec-and-the-state-of-ai-science-an-in-depth-interview-fbca93d8f4ff

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 Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.^[6]

Mikolov has argued that humanity might be at a greater existential risk if an artificial general intelligence is not developed.^[7]