Max Welling

Max Welling
Born(1968-10-22)22 October 1968
Alma materUtrecht University
Known forBayesian Inference, Generative modeling, Deep Learning, Variational autoencoders, Graph Convolutional Networks, Group-Equivariant Convolutional Networks
AwardsNSF 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
FieldsMachine learning, Quantum mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of Amsterdam
Gerard 't Hooft
WebsiteWebsite of Max Welling

Max Welling (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam.[1] In August 2017, the university spin-off Scyfer BV, co-founded by Welling, was acquired by Qualcomm.[2] He has since then served as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands.[3] He is also a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science, based in Amsterdam.[4]

Welling received his PhD in physics with a thesis on quantum gravity under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft (1998)[5] at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics,[6] and has most notably invented variational autoencoders (VAEs), together with Diederik P Kingma.

In 2025 Welling was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]

References

  1. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2018-06-19). "prof. dr. M. (Max) Welling - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  2. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2017-08-16). "UvA spin-off company Scyfer acquired by Qualcomm - University of Amsterdam". www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  3. ^ "Qualcomm Forms Artificial Intelligence Research Unit". Electronic Design. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  4. ^ "Max Welling". The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  5. ^ "Gerard 't Hooft - PhD students". www.staff.science.uu.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  6. ^ "Max Welling - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  7. ^ "Max Welling". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 December 2025.


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