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Max Welling

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Co-founder and CTO at CuspAIFull Professor at University of Amsterdam

🇳🇱 Dutch

Welling co-created the variational autoencoder, a way for models to learn a compressed representation of data and generate new examples, and made influential contributions to graph neural networks and Bayesian deep learning.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder and CTO 2024-present
Full Professor 2012-present
Previously
2021-2023VP & Distinguished Scientist,
2017-2021VP Technologies,
Born1968
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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

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26230,613205,915181,216Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
230,613citations as of Sep 1, '26+7,762 since Aug 1, '26
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