BIO
Bernhard Schölkopf is Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. A professor in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), he researches in machine learning and causal inference, and has applied his methods in diverse fields ranging from biomedicine to computational photography and astronomy. Schölkopf is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Learning in Machines & Brains Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). His honors include the Leibniz Award, the 2019 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, and the 2022 Allen Newell Award. In 2025, he was distinguished with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
