Q: What is François Chollet known for?

A: François Chollet is known for creating Keras, a popular deep learning library, and for his contributions to machine learning research.

Q: Where did François Chollet work?

A: François Chollet has worked at Google since 2015 and has been involved in various machine learning projects.

A: Keras is an open-source deep learning library developed by François Chollet that simplifies the process of building and training neural networks.

Q: What fields does François Chollet work in?

A: François Chollet works in machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and Python.

Q: What is the ARC Prize?

A: The ARC Prize is a competition focused on advancing AI research, to which François Chollet has contributed.

François Chollet

French machine learning researcher

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Sex or gender: male^[18]
Date of birth: October 20, 1989
Country of citizenship: France^[6]
Occupation: data scientist, software developer, computer scientist, programmer
Employer: Google^[13]
Field of work: software engineering, Python, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, artificial neural network^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
Educated at: ENSTA Paris^[14]
Notable work: Keras, TensorFlow, ARC Prize^[15]^[16]^[17]
Official website: fchollet.com^[21]
Languages spoken, written or signed: French, English^[22]^[23]
Different from: François Chollet^[24]
Family name: Chollet^[19]
Given name: François^[20]
Social media followers: 355k (192k–355k, n=4)^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]

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CBDB.cz author ID: 221024
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DDB person (GND) ID: 1151332550
Databazeknih.cz author ID: 124906
GitHub account: fchollet
Google Knowledge Graph ID: /g/11h2gfjkhq
Google Scholar author ID: VfYhf2wAAAAJ
LinkedIn personal profile ID: fchollet

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Reddit username: fchollet
SVKKL authority ID: 0394045-Chollet-Francois
Semantic Scholar author ID: 1565641737
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PCjHDH83Y7bmwdGWCV9BycX
X (Twitter) username: fchollet
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Languages spoken, written or signed 2

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Notable work 2

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Summary

François Chollet was born on October 20, 1989^[1]. He has worked as a data scientist^[2], software developer^[3], computer scientist^[4], and programmer^[5].

FAQs

What did François Chollet do for work?

François Chollet worked as a data scientist^[2], software developer^[3], computer scientist^[4], and programmer^[5].

Where did François Chollet go to school?

François Chollet was educated at ENSTA Paris^[14].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[18] ↑ François Chollet — sex or gender (P21): male. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2025-08-29. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ François Chollet — country of citizenship (P27): France. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ François Chollet — educated at (P69): ENSTA Paris. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): software engineering. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): Python. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): artificial intelligence. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): machine learning. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): deep learning. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ François Chollet — field of work (P101): artificial neural network. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-11-07. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ François Chollet — occupation (P106): data scientist. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ François Chollet — occupation (P106): software developer. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ François Chollet — occupation (P106): computer scientist. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-12-18. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ François Chollet — occupation (P106): programmer. Retrieved 2025-04-24. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ François Chollet — employer (P108): Google. wikidata.org.
[1] ↑ François Chollet — date of birth (P569): October 20, 1989. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ François Chollet — family name (P734): Chollet. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ François Chollet — given name (P735): François. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ François Chollet — notable work (P800): Keras. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ François Chollet — notable work (P800): TensorFlow. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ François Chollet — notable work (P800): ARC Prize. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ François Chollet — official website (P856): https://fchollet.com/. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ François Chollet — languages spoken, written or signed (P1412): French. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ François Chollet — languages spoken, written or signed (P1412): English. Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved 2022-03-01. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ François Chollet — different from (P1889): François Chollet. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ François Chollet — social media followers (P8687): 224,457. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ François Chollet — social media followers (P8687): 191,835. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ François Chollet — social media followers (P8687): 280,788. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ François Chollet — social media followers (P8687): 355,105. wikidata.org.

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