“We are absolutely excited and really proud that Bob Williamson is moving to Tübingen”, said Ulrike von Luxburg, one of the cluster speakers. “He is one of the most sharp-minded discussion partners I’ve ever met. His way of asking innocent-looking questions has shaped my own way of approaching science.”
Williamson already has strong connections to the Tübingen machine learning community. Not only has he been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence and is thus familiar with its work and progress, but he has also known many of the researchers in Tübingen and Stuttgart for a long time and has co-authored papers with some of them. “Tübingen is, in my view, the best place in Europe, and in fact I think now the world, for the sort of machine learning research I wish to do”, he said. “The collection and breadth of talent there is amazing.”
