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Dutch computer scientist (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Max Welling | |
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Born | 1 November 1968 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Utrecht University |
Known for | Bayesian Inference, Generative modeling, Deep Learning, Variational autoencoders, Graph Convolutional Networks, Group-Equivariant Convolutional Networks |
Awards | NSF Career Award (2005), Dean’s Mid-Career Award for Research (2008), ECCV Koenderink Prize (2010), 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 |
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.
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