Bernhard Schölkopf

Bernhard Schölkopf is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics 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.