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MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Dept. Schölkopf
Spemannstraße 38
72076 Tübingen
 
Telephone:  +49-7071-601-551
Telefax:  +49-7071-601-552
Room:  211
e-mail:  bernhard.schoelkopf@tuebingen.mpg.de
 

 
 
 
 

My scientific interests are in the field of inference from empirical data, in particular machine learning and perception. In particular, I study kernel methods for extracting regularities from high-dimensional data. These regularities are usually statistical ones, however, in recent years I have also become interested in methods for finding causal regularities.

To learn more about our work, you may want to take a look at the Department Overview from the last report to our scientific advisory board, or at short project reports from the same document:

You can find a list of my publications here. Many of the papers can downloaded; the older ones usually from http://www.kernel-machines.org/.

A starting point is the first chapter of our book Learning with Kernels, available online. If your interest in machine learning is a mathematical one, you might prefer our review paper in the Annals of Statistics (arXiv link). For a general audience, I wrote a short high-level introduction in German that appeared in the Jahrbuch of the Max Planck Society.

Click here for a photograph of a beautiful northern light, which I took a few years ago from the plane on the way home from NIPS.

Note: I am not very organized with my e-mail; if you want to apply for a position in my lab, please send your application only to Sabrina.Nielebock@tuebingen.mpg.de.