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Durk Kingma

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Researcher, Large-scale Machine Learning at Anthropic

🇳🇱 Dutch

Kingma co-created the variational autoencoder, which learns a compact map of data and uses it to generate new examples. He also developed Adam, a training method that automatically adjusts how much each part of a neural network changes. Adam became one of AI's most widely used tools.

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Background

Current role
Researcher, Large-scale Machine Learning 2024-present
Previously
2023-2024Research Scientist,
2018-2023Research Scientist,
2015-2018Founding team member and Research Scientist,
2010-2012Co-founder and Technical Lead,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26385,448351,938318,427Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
385,448citations as of Sep 1, '26+8,748 since Aug 1, '26
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