École Polytechnique
Ahsen KhaliqML Growth Lead · Hugging FaceEngineer↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Thomas Wolf
Hugging FaceCo-founder and Chief Science Officer
Wolf helped make modern AI research usable beyond the labs that created it. He co-created Hugging Face’s Transformers library, which lets developers run and adapt shared models[2], and helped drive BigScience, the open research collaboration behind BLOOM. His work also extends to open robotics tools such as LeRobot.[1]
Career & education
Current roleHugging Face2017-presentCo-founder and Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face2017-presentPreviously
Plasseraud IP2011-2017
Patent AttorneyWork 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.
citations68,348As of Oct 20, '26
citations+8,036Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing
With Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, Julien Chaumond, Clément Delangue, Anthony Moi, Pierric Cistac, Tim Rault and others ·Presented Hugging Face's Transformers library for using, adapting and sharing pretrained language models.
References
- Thomas Wolf — open-source libraries, BigScience and roboticsthomwolf.io
Wolf helped make modern AI research usable beyond the labs that created it. He co-created Hugging Face’s Transformers library, which lets developers run and adapt shared models, and helped drive BigScience, the open research collaboration behind BLOOM. His work also extends to open robotics tools such as LeRobot.
- Hugging Face Transformers — original library paperarxiv.org
He co-created Hugging Face’s Transformers library, which lets developers run and adapt shared models
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