Bernhard Schölkopf

Director, Department of Empirical Inference at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsScientific Director, ELLIS Institute Tübingen at ELLIS

🇩🇪 German

Schölkopf helped establish kernel methods, an influential way for computers to find complex patterns in data. He later became a leading figure in causal learning, which tries to separate genuine cause and effect from mere correlation, with applications across scientific discovery.