RWTH Aachen University
CentraleSupélec
University of Cambridge
Timothée LacroixCo-founder and CTO · Mistral AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Patrick von Platen
Mistral AIResearch Engineer
Von Platen created Diffusers, the widely used open-source library for building image, video and audio generation systems, and was a core maintainer of Hugging Face Transformers. His work turned complex generative models into practical tools used across research and industry.
Career & education
Current roleMistral AI2024-presentResearch Engineer
Mistral AI2024-presentPreviously
Hugging Face2020-2024Research Engineer; core maintainer
Hugging Face2020-2024Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations24,384As of Oct 22, '26
citations+2,591Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
With Thomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, Julien Chaumond, Clément Delangue, Anthony Moi, Pierric Cistac and others ·Presented Hugging Face's Transformers library for using, adapting and sharing pretrained language models.
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