Michal Valko

Founding Researcher, Research, Isara Labs
Lecturer, Ecole Normale Superieure
Experienced Research Scientist, Inria
Joined
April 2017

Names

Michal Valko (Preferred)

Emails

****@inria.fr (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@google.com (Confirmed)
****@deepmind.com (Confirmed)
****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Founding Researcher
Research, Isara Labs (isara.io)
2025Present
Lecturer
Ecole Normale Superieure (ens-paris-saclay.fr)
2014Present
Experienced Research Scientist
Inria (inria.fr)
2013Present
Principal Researcher
Meta (meta.com)
20242024
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind (deepmind.com)
20212024
Staff Research Scientist
DeepMind (deepmind.com)
20192021
Habilation
Ecole Normale Superieure (ens-paris-saclay.fr)
20152016
Research Scientist
Inria (inria.fr)
20122013
Postdoc
Inria (inria.fr)
20112012
PhD student
University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu)
20052011
MS student
Comenius University (uniba.sk)
20002005

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee
2025Present
PhD Advisee
20232026
PhD Advisee
20232025
PhD Advisee
20222025
PhD Advisee
20192022
PhD Advisee
20182022
PhD Advisee
Xuedong Shang
20172021
Postdoc Advisee
20192020
PhD Advisee
20172020
PhD Advisee
20172020
PhD Advisee
Julien Seznec
20172020
PhD Advisee
20142019
Postdoc Advisee
20172018
PhD Advisee
20142017
PhD Advisee
Tomáš Kocák
20132016
Postdoc Advisor
20112012
PhD Advisor
20052011

Expertise

large language models
2022Present
self-supervised learning
2020Present
reinforcement learning
2018Present
bandits
2012Present
online learning
2007Present
semi-supervised learning
2005Present
graph-based learning
2003Present
neural networks
20002005

Publications

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Co-Authors