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Alexander Ecker

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Professor at University of GöttingenCo-founder and Lead ML Engineer at Maddox AI

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.

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Co-founder and Lead ML Engineer
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Last editorial review: August 24, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2625,55924,23322,907Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
25,559citations as of Jun 15, '26+2,652 since Aug 25, '25
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