Max Welling
Max Welling | |
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Born | 1 November 1968 |
Nationality | ICML Best Paper Award (2012), ICLR Best Paper Award (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Machine learning, Quantum mechanics |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Doctoral advisor | Gerard 't Hooft |
Website | Website of Max Welling |
Max Welling (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam.[1] In August 2017, the university spin-off Scyfer BV, co-founded by Welling, was acquired by Qualcomm.[2] He has since then served as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands.[3] He is also currently the Lead Scientist of the new Microsoft Research Lab in Amsterdam.
Welling received his
PhD in physics with a thesis on quantum gravity under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft (1998)[4] at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics,[5] and has most notably invented variational autoencoders (VAEs), together with Diederik P Kingma
.
References
- ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2018-06-19). "prof. dr. M. (Max) Welling - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2017-08-16). "UvA spin-off company Scyfer acquired by Qualcomm - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Qualcomm Forms Artificial Intelligence Research Unit". Electronic Design. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "Gerard 't Hooft - PhD students". www.staff.science.uu.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
- ^ "Max Welling - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.