Thomas Wolf is Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Hugging Face Inc. He and his teams are on a mission to catalyse and democratise responsible ML and AI research by creating large scale open-source and open-science projects. Prior to founding HuggingFace, he gained a Ph.D. in statistical and quantum physics, and later a law degree from Sorbonne University. He previously worked as a physics researcher and a European Patent Attorney in the USA, France, and the Netherlands where he currently reside with his family.