Tom Hope
Principal AI Scientist at Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolTom Hope is a Principal AI Scientist and senior lecturer who blends deep academic research with industry impact, leading an AI/NLP lab at the Hebrew University while holding a research scientist role at the Allen Institute for AI. With a PhD in computer science and a decade of experience, he has guided teams at Intel to deploy award-winning deep learning, NLP, and computer vision solutions across healthcare, manufacturing, and marketing. His work—recognized with multiple best paper awards and coverage in Nature and Science—spans knowledge graphs, information retrieval, and applied ML for real-world systems. He also advises startups, consults for major corporations, and authored practical resources on TensorFlow, highlighting a rare mix of scholarly rigor and product-focused engineering. An Azrieli Early Career Fellow, Tom often supervises and collaborates across academia and industry to translate novel research into deployable AI.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral research Computer Science, Postdoctoral research Computer Science at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at The Hebrew University of JerusalemIASA - Israeli Arts and Science AcademyMachine Learning Summer School, Machine Learning Summer School at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (24)
pytorch10
python10
data-science9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
relation9
deep-learning9
text-mining8
jax8
extraction8
entity8
neural-network7
topic-modeling6
natural-language-processing6
nlp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ttthhh/ballpark
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
tomhoper/tomhoper.github.io
Mar 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:188 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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