Michal Valko (Preferred)
Michal Valko
Pronouns: he/him
Principal Researcher, Stealth Startup
Lecturer, Ecole Normale Superieure
Experienced Research Scientist, Inria
- Joined April 2017
Names
Emails
****@inria.fr (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
, ****@google.com (Confirmed)
, ****@deepmind.com (Confirmed)
, ****@meta.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Principal Researcher
Stealth Startup (inria.fr)
2025 – Present
Lecturer
Ecole Normale Superieure (ens-paris-saclay.fr)
2014 – Present
Experienced Research Scientist
Inria (inria.fr)
2013 – Present
Principal Researcher
Meta (meta.com)
2024 – 2024
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind (deepmind.com)
2021 – 2023
Staff Research Scientist
DeepMind (deepmind.com)
2019 – 2021
Habilation
Ecole Normale Superieure (ens-paris-saclay.fr)
2015 – 2016
Research Scientist
Inria (inria.fr)
2012 – 2013
Postdoc
Inria (inria.fr)
2011 – 2012
PhD student
University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)
2005 – 2011
MS student
Comenius University (uniba.sk)
2000 – 2005
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
PhD Advisee
Xuedong Shang
2017 – 2021
PhD Advisee
Julien Seznec
2017 – 2020
PhD Advisee
Tomáš Kocák
2013 – 2016
Expertise
Large language models
2022 – Present
self-supervised learning
2020 – Present
reinforcement learning
2018 – Present
bandits
2012 – Present
online learning
2007 – Present
semi-supervised learning
2005 – Present
graph-based learning
2003 – Present
neural networks
2000 – 2005