Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face.
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- Thomas Wolf is a co-founder and the chief science officer of Hugging Face.
- He studied at École Polytechnique and earned a PhD in statistical and quantum physics at Sorbonne University and ESPCI.
- He then worked as a patent attorney for five years before turning to machine learning around 2015.
- He created or advised Hugging Face libraries including Transformers, Datasets and LeRobot.
- He co-wrote the O’Reilly book Natural Language Processing with Transformers.
Key facts
- Role
- Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face (as of 2026)1
- Education
- École Polytechnique; PhD in statistical and quantum physics, Sorbonne University and ESPCI; law degree, Panthéon-Sorbonne1
- Before
- Patent attorney at Cabinet Plasseraud, Paris, for five years1
- Open source
- Created or advised Transformers, Datasets, Diffusers, Accelerate, DataTrove, smolagents and LeRobot; the BigScience workshop behind BLOOM1
- Book
- Natural Language Processing with Transformers (O’Reilly), co-author1
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