Klaus-Robert Müller


Klaus-Robert Müller is a German computer scientist and physicist, most noted for his work in machine learning and brain–computer interfaces.
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Career

Klaus-Robert Müller received his Diplom in mathematical physics and PhD in theoretical computer science from the University of Karlsruhe. Following his Ph.D. he went to Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow at GMD Berlin, where he started building up the Intelligent Data Analysis group.
From 1994 to 1995 he was a research fellow at Shun'ichi Amari's lab at the University of Tokyo.
1999 Müller became an associate professor for neuroinformatics at the University of Potsdam, transitioning to the full professorship for Neural Networks and Time Series Analysis in 2003. Since 2006 he holds the chair for Machine Learning at Technische Universität Berlin.
Since 2012 he holds a distinguished professorship at Korea University in Seoul. He co-founded and is co-director of the Berlin Big Data Center of TU Berlin.
As of 2017, 29 former doctoral or postdoctoral researchers of Klaus-Robert Müller have become full professors themselves. Bernhard Schölkopf and Alexander J. Smola were supervised by him as members of his research group.
Since 2020 he is director of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, a German National AI Competence Center, and director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems unit Berlin.
In 2020/2021 he spent his sabbatical at Google Brain as a principal scientist.

Research

Müller has contributed extensively to several major interests of machine learning, including support vector machines and kernel methods, and artificial neural networks. He pioneered applying new methods of pattern recognition in domains like brain–computer interfaces, using them for patients with Locked-in syndrome. He is one of the leading computer scientists affiliated with Germany.
His current research interests include:

Honours and awards

Klaus-Robert Müller was elected a fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012. In 2017 he was elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and also external scientific member of the Max Planck Society. In 2021 he was elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering.
His work was honoured with several awards, including:

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