Bernhard Schölkopf

Bernhard Schölkopf is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he heads the Department of Empirical Inference.

He is a leading researcher in the machine learning community, where he is particularly active in the field of kernel methods. He has made particular contributions with support vector machines and kernel PCA. A large part of his work is the development of novel machine learning algorithms through their formulation as (typically convex) optimisation problems.

Employment

• since 2011: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Managing Director 1.5.2011 - 31.1.2013)
• 2001 – 2010: Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Managing Director 1.8.2006– 31.7.2009)
• 2000 – 2001: Group leader at the biotech startup Biowulf Technologies, New York
• 1999 – 2000: Researcher at Microsoft Research Ltd., Cambridge
• 1997 – 1999: Researcher at GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science), Berlin

Education

• 1997: PhD in Computer Science (TU Berlin)
• 1994: Diplom in Physics, University of Tübingen (Germany)
• 1992: M. Sc. in Mathematics, University of London
• 1988 – 1994: Studies of Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy in Tübingen and London

Recent Awards and Memberships (Selection)

2012

• Annual Academy Prize , Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, Department Informatik

2011

• Posner keynote lecturer at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference
• Annual Max Planck Research Award
• Annual Brain Computer Interfacing Research Award (with Moritz Grosse-Wentrup)

2010

• Inclusion in the list of ISI Highly Cited Researchers
• Honorarprofessor, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Tübingen University
• Professory extraordinary, Department of Mathematical Science, Stellenbosch University, 2010 – 2012

External links

• Home page of Bernhard Schölkopf