Todor Mihaylov
Research Scientist at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTodor Mihaylov is a research scientist in New York with 13 years of experience at the intersection of deep learning and natural language understanding. Currently at Meta, he focuses on large language models, instruction tuning, and multimodal systems while completing a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University. His doctoral and industry work centers on integrating external knowledge into neural reading-comprehension and QA models, blending rigorous research with production-oriented LLM development. Past internships at AI2 and AWS Deep Learning and an early software-engineering foundation from the Technical University of Sofia give him strong end-to-end expertise from systems to algorithms. He also studied entrepreneurship at Babson, signaling an interest in translating research into impactful products. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges theoretical advances and practical model tuning to improve real-world language understanding.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Researcher, Computational Linguistics, Doctoral Researcher, Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg UniversityEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson CollegeEnglish, Mathematics, Informatics, Physics, English, Mathematics, Informatics, Physics at High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, VratsaBachelor, Computer Systems, Bachelor, Computer Systems at Technical University of SofiaMaster's degree, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery, Master's degree, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian, German
Stackoverflow
161reputation
151kreached
11answers
4questions
Github Skills (53)
conll10
pytorch-lightning10
temporal-data10
relation10
clp9
robotics9
alarm9
mixture-of-experts9
clock9
ray9
visual-question-answering9
nlp8
transfer-learning8
computer-vision8
discourse8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tbmihailov/semeval2016-task3-cqa
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
tbmihailov/overleaf-backup-tool
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
A script that automatically backups all Overleaf projects to a local folder. It works.
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
backupsbackupoverleaf
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