Max Welling


Max Welling is a Dutch computer scientist in machine learning at the University of Amsterdam. In August 2017, the university spin-off, “Scyfer BV”, co-founded by Welling was acquired by Qualcomm and he has since then served as a VP Technologies at Qualcomm Netherlands.
Welling received his PhD in quantum physics under the supervision of Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft at the Utrecht University. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in machine learning, computer vision, statistics and physics.