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Alexander Ecker
University of GöttingenFull Professor
Maddox AICo-founder and Lead ML Engineer
Ecker helped invent neural style transfer, the technique that lets an AI recreate one image using the visual style of another. His broader research combines AI and neuroscience to study how brains and machines recognize what they see.
Career & education
Current rolesUniversity of Göttingen2019-presentFull Professor
University of Göttingen2019-presentCo-founder and Lead ML Engineer
Previously
University of Tübingen2016-2019Senior Research Scientist
University of Tübingen2016-2019Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations26,752As of Oct 21, '26
citations+1,193Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
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