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Max Welling (born 1968) is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam.[1] In August 2017, the university spin-off Scyfer BV, co-founded by Welling, was acquired by Qualcomm.[2] He has since then served as a Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm Netherlands.[3] He is also a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research AI4Science, based in Amsterdam.[4]

Welling received his PhD in physics with a thesis on quantum gravity under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard ‘t Hooft (1998)[5] at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics,[6] and has most notably invented variational autoencoders (VAEs), together with Diederik P Kingma.

In 2025 Welling was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]

References

  1. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2018-06-19). “prof. dr. M. (Max) Welling – University of Amsterdam”. www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  2. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2017-08-16). “UvA spin-off company Scyfer acquired by Qualcomm – University of Amsterdam”. www.uva.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  3. ^ “Qualcomm Forms Artificial Intelligence Research Unit”. Electronic Design. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  4. ^ “Max Welling”. The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  5. ^ “Gerard ‘t Hooft – PhD students”. www.staff.science.uu.nl. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  6. ^ “Max Welling – Google Scholar Citations”. scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  7. ^ “Max Welling”. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 25 December 2025.