# Thomas Wolf: founder, Hugging Face

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French researcher and entrepreneur; co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face (founded 2016). Holds a Ph.D. in statistical/quantum physics from Sorbonne University / ENSCI Paris, where he worked on superconducting materials for the DGA (French DARPA) and Thales. After his PhD he moved into machine learning and patent law; his weekend port of Google's BERT to PyTorch in 2018 sparked Hugging Face's open-source ML pivot.

- **Nationality:** French
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (2)

- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md) (cofounder)

See all founders: [/founders](https://registry.deploy.report/founders.md)

## Co-founders (2)

- [Clement Delangue](https://registry.deploy.report/people/clement-delangue.md) co-founded [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md)
- [Julien Chaumond](https://registry.deploy.report/people/julien-chaumond.md) co-founded [Hugging Face](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/hugging-face.md)

## Sources (2)

1. **Wikipedia** · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face
2. **Thomas Wolf** · https://thomwolf.io/


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