Max Welling
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 |
Max Welling (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam. In August 2017, the university spin-off Scyfer BV, co-founded by Welling, was acquired by Qualcomm. He has since then served as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands. He is also a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science, based in Amsterdam.
Welling received his PhD in physics with a thesis on quantum gravity under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft (1998) at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics, and has most notably invented variational autoencoders (VAEs), together with Diederik P Kingma.