Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf

Short Bio

Bernhard Schölkopf is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen. A pioneering machine-learning researcher, he is best known for foundational work on kernel methods, support vector machines, causal inference, and representation learning. He is also a professor at ETH Zurich and has held senior industry roles at Amazon and Amazon Web Services. Schölkopfs leadership at MPI-IS, the ELLIS Institute, and the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems has helped establish Tübingen as one of Europe’s leading hubs for foundational AI research and its translation into applications.