Hector Fellow since 2018
Prof. Dr. Bernhard SchölkopfProf. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen site
Bernhard Schölkopf is director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, affiliated professor at ETH Zurich, and honorary professor at the University of Tübingen and TU Berlin.
He studies the detection of regularities from observational data. He has significantly shaped the research field of machine learning with his work on kernel methods, showing that a large range of learning algorithms can be generalized to the nonlinear case and to non-vectorial data. More recently, he has combined machine learning and causal inference to develop new methods to recognize causal structures (in addition to statistical dependences) from observational data.
Bernhard Schölkopf is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG (German Research Foundation), the Milner Award of the Royal Society, the BBAW Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the Koeber European Science Award.
Bernhard Schölkopf is currently unavailable to supervise doctoral projects.
The Age of Artificial Intelligence
How Bernhard Schölkopf Is Shaping the Future of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming our society. Bernhard Schölkopf, director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, is one of the leading researchers in the field. In this video portrait, he discusses the opportunities and risks of AI, as well as its applications in science, particularly in astronomy, where KI can open new perspectives on the study of exoplanets and gravitational waves. But AI also raises societal questions: How does it influence politics and public opinion? Schölkopf advocates for a responsible approach to AI and the importance of strong European research.
