Machine Learning and Deep Learning: Understanding the core technologies driving AI advancements.


ELLIS created a network of outstanding AI researchers across Europe and Israel with a proven track record of scientific excellence. These scientists are top experts in their respective fields and participate in ELLIS in various ways, for example by building up cross-national research programs and ELLIS sites, and by supervising ELLIS PhD students. All scientists listed below are members of the ELLIS network, carry out own research projects at scientific institutions across Europe, and are available to provide statements on their respective field of expertise. You can filter the list alphabetically.

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Name Role ELLIS Unit ELLIS Program Spoken languages Website
Sepp Hochreiter Fellow Linz, Austria Machine Learning for Molecule Discovery English, German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepp_Hochreiter
Nicolas Flammarion Member Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, https://www.epfl.ch/labs/tml/
Juan Manuel Gorriz Saez Member Cambridge, UK Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems Spanish, English https://www.ugr.es/~gorriz/
Arto Klami Member Helsinki, Finland   English, Finnish https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multi-source-probabilistic-inference
Roberto Calandra Member     Italian, English https://www.lasr.org
Riccardo Marin Member Tübingen, Germany   Italian, English https://riccardomarin.github.io/
Fredrik Johnasson Member     Swedish, English https://www.fredjo.com
Mustafa Mert Çelikok Member Delft, the Netherlands   English, Turkish https://mmcelikok.github.io
Yiming Wang Member Trento, Italy Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, Chinese https://yimingwang.it
Sabine Süsstrunk Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, German https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ivrl/
Bastian Rieck Member Munich, Germany Geometric Deep Learning German, English https://bastian.rieck.me
Nils Jansen Member Nijmegen, the Netherlands   German, English https://nilsjansen.org
Rita Fioresi Member     Italian, English https://unibo.it
Cassio de Campos Member     English, Portuguese, Italian https://uai.win.tue.nl/cassio-de-campos/
Matteo Saveriano Member Trento, Italy   Italian, English  
Giulio Biroli Fellow Paris, France Quantum and Physics Based Machine Learning Italian, French, English, https://www.lpens.ens.psl.eu/giulio-biroli/
Nicolas Keriven Member     English, French https://nkeriven.github.io
Nuria Oliver Fellow Alicante, Spain Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English, French, Catalan https://nuriaoliver.com
Ole Winther Fellow Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Danish https://olewinther.github.io/
Arash Ajoudani Scholar Genoa, Italy   English https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/arash-ajoudani
Alexander Marx Member     German, English https://a-marx.com
Holger Caesar Member Delft, the Netherlands Machine Learning and Computer Vision German, English https://it-caesar.com
François Bachoc Member     French, English https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~fbachoc/index.html
Alberto Suárez Member Madrid, Spain   Spanish, English, French, Dutch https://www.eps.uam.es/~gaa
Herke van Hoof Scholar Amsterdam, the Netherlands   English, Dutch https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/h.c.vanhoof/homepage/
Jens Kober Scholar Delft, the Netherlands   English, German, Dutch http://jenskober.de/
Jes Frellsen Member Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Danish https://frellsen.org
Dubravko Culibrl Member Trento, Italy Multimodal Learning Systems English, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Bosnian https://www.dubravkoculibrk.org
Joachim Denzler Fellow Jena, Germany Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences German, English https://www.inf-cv.uni-jena.de
Simone Scardapane Member     English, Italian https://sscardapane.it/
Wendelin Böhmer Member Delft, the Netherlands   English, German https://reinforceAI.net
Justus Piater Fellow   ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! German, English, French https://iis.uibk.ac.at/
Gennady Roshchupkin Member   ELLIS Health English https://www.roshchupkin.org
Christian Wachinger Member Munich, Germany   German, English, https://www.ai-med.de
Søren Hauberg Scholar Copenhagen, Denmark   Danish, English http://hauberg.org
Augusto Gerolin Member     Italian, Portuguese, French, English https://aiquantum.uottawa.ca/
Balazs Kegl Fellow Paris, France Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, French, Hungarian https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s0njcGgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ; https://twitter.com/balazskegl
Luis Leiva Member     English, Spanish, Catalan https://luis.leiva.name/web/
Michael Kamp Member     English, German https://michaelkamp.org/
Horst Bischof Member Graz, Austria   German, English https://www.tugraz.at
Nicu Sebe Fellow Trento, Italy Multimodal Learning Systems English, Italian, Romanian https://disi.unitn.it/~sebe/
Alex Bronstein Fellow Haifa, Israel   English, Italian, Hebrew, Russian https://bron.cs.technion.ac.il
Gianmarco De Francisci Morales Member     English, Italian https://gdfm.me/research/
Martin Trapp Member Helsinki, Finland Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English, German https://trappmartin.github.io
Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres Member     Spanish, English https://miguelangelft.github.io/
Edoardo M. Ponti Member Edinburgh, UK Natural Language Processing English, Italian https://ducdauge.github.io/
Hongpeng Zhou Member     English, Chinese https://www.hongpengzhou.com/
Radu Tudor Ionescu Member     English, Romanian http://raduionescu.herokuapp.com
Jean-Michel Loubes Member   Human-centric Machine Learning French, Spanish, English https://gems-ai.aniti.fr/jean-michel-loubes/
Adrian Weller Scholar Cambridge, UK Human-centric Machine Learning English http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian
Vincent Fortuin Member Munich, Germany   English, German https://fortuin.github.io/
Gemma Roig Member     English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian https://www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/
Nadav Cohen Scholar Tel Aviv, Israel   English, Hebrew https://www.cohennadav.com
Rebecca Killick Fellow     English https://www.lancs.ac.uk/~killick
Eran Yahav Fellow Haifa, Israel Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning English, Hebrew, https://csaws.cs.technion.ac.il/~yahave/
Sergio Escalera Fellow Barcelona, Spain Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English, Catalan https://sergioescalera.com/
Ali Ramezani-Kebrya Member     English https://alirk.github.io/
Enzo Tartaglione Member Paris, France   English, Italian https://enzotarta.github.io/
Cecilio Angulo Member Barcelona, Spain   Spanish, Catalan, English https://futur.upc.edu/CecilioAnguloBahon?locale=en
Michael Pfeiffer Member     German, English https://www.bosch-ai.com
Martin Jaggi Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English, German https://www.epfl.ch/labs/mlo/
Abhinav Valada Scholar Freiburg, Germany   English https://rl.uni-freiburg.de/people/valada
Luca Romeo Member     Italy, English https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=fRja-q0AAAAJ&hl=it
Eric Medvet Member     Italian, English https://medvet.inginf.units.it/
Thomas Brox Fellow Freiburg, Germany Machine Learning and Computer Vision German, English https://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/brox/index.en.html
Mario Muñoz Organero Member Alicante, Spain ELLIS Health Spanish, English https://researchportal.uc3m.es/display/inv18527
Klaus Maier-Hein Fellow Heidelberg, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.dkfz.de/en/mic/index.php
Antonio Vergari Member Edinburgh, UK   Italian, English https://april-tools.github.io/
Bernd Bischl Scholar Munich, Germany   English, German https://www.slds.stat.uni-muenchen.de/
Battista Biggio Member     Italian, English https://battistabiggio.github.io/
Shaodi You Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands   English, Chinese, Japanese https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=DRoHXVMAAAAJ
Joseph Salmon Member     French, English https://josephsalmon.eu/
Robert Peharz Member Graz, Austria   English, German https://robert-peharz.github.io/
Vincent Adam Member Barcelona, Spain   French, English https://vincentadam.com
Sven Behnke Member     German, English https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/research.html
Konrad Schindler Fellow Zürich, Switzerland Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences English, German https://prs.igp.ethz.ch/
Nadja Klein Member     English, German https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/
Jan Peters Fellow Darmstadt, Germany ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! German, English https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Research/Overview
Frans Oliehoek Scholar Delft, the Netherlands   English, Dutch https://www.fransoliehoek.net/
Carlo D'Eramo Member     English, Italian https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/rlcdm/team/carlo-deramo/
Oier Mees Member     Basque, Spanish, German, English https://www.oiermees.com
Marcus Liwicki Member     German, English, Swedish https://www.ltu.se/en/staff/m/marcus-liwicki
Maks Ovsjanikov Fellow Paris, France Learning for Graphics and Vision English, French, Russian https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~maks/
Paul Bürkner Member     German, English https://paul-buerkner.github.io/
Tom Heskes Fellow Nijmegen, the Netherlands   Nederlands, English https://www.cs.ru.nl/~tomh/
Roland Kwitt Fellow     German, English https://rkwitt.github.io/
Stefano V. Albrecht Scholar Edinburgh, UK   English, German https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk/stefano-albrecht/
Manuele Leonelli Member     English, Spanish, Italian https://manueleleonelli.github.io
Tilman Plehn Member Heidelberg, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~plehn/
Jiří Matas Fellow   Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, Czech, Russian https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~matas/
Alberto Maria Metelli Member Milan, Italy   English, Italian https://albertometelli.github.io/
Bartosz Zieliński Member Warsaw, Poland   Polish, English https://bartoszzielinski.github.io/
Maximilian Kasy Member Oxford, UK   English, German https://maxkasy.github.io/home/
Piotr Szymańśki Member   Natural Language Processing English, Polish, German https://ai.pwr.edu.pl/author/piotr-szymanski/
Wojciech Samek Scholar Berlin, Germany   German, Polish, English https://iphome.hhi.de/samek/
Dario Zanca Member     Italian, Spanish, English https://www.dariozanca.com/
Karteek Alahari Member   Multimodal Learning Systems English, French https://thoth.inrialpes.fr/~alahari/
Simone Calderara Member Modena, Italy Machine Learning and Computer Vision Italian, English https://aimagelab.ing.unimore.it/imagelab/person.asp?idpersona=38
Dorina Thanou Scholar Lausanne, Switzerland Geometric Deep Learning English, Greek  
Fabian Theis Fellow Munich, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/icb/pi/fabian-theis
Venelin Kovatchev Member     Bulgarian, English https://vkovatchev.com
Steven McDonagh Member Edinburgh, UK   English https://eng.ed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-steven-mcdonagh
Jesus Cerquides Member Barcelona, Spain   English, Spanish, Catalan https://www.iiia.csic.es/~cerquide/
Marius Kloft Member     English, German https://ml.cs.uni-kl.de/
Elisa Fromont Member     French, English http://people.irisa.fr/Elisa.Fromont/
Christian Theobalt Fellow Saarbrücken, Germany Learning for Graphics and Vision German, English https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/visual-computing-and-artificial-intelligence
Xavier Alameda-Pineda Member     Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Italian https://xavirema.eu
Dima Damen Member   Multimodal Learning Systems English https://dimadamen.github.io
Emanuele Rodolà Fellow   Geometric Deep Learning Italian, English https://gladia.di.uniroma1.it/
Angelica Aviles-Rivero Member     English, Spanish https://angelicaiaviles.wordpress.com/
Ti John Member Helsinki, Finland   German, English http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/about/
Marco Grangetto Member Turin, Italy   English, Italian https://eidos.di.unito.it
Alejandro Frangi Fellow Manchester, UK ELLIS Health Spanish, English https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alejandro-frangi
Panagiotis Karras Member Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Greek https://cs.au.dk/~karras/
Leo Lahti Member Helsinki, Finland   Finnish, English https://www.iki.fi/Leo.Lahti
Rufin VanRullen Member     English, French https://rufinv.github.io/
Laura Ruotsalainen Member Helsinki, Finland   Finnish, English https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/spatiotemporal-data-analysis
Tiffany Vlaar Member     English, Dutch, https://tiffanyvlaar.github.io
Amaury Habrard Member     French, English https://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/habrarda/
Adrian Hilton Fellow London, UK   English https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/adrian-hilton
Niki Kilbertus Member Munich, Germany ELLIS Health English, German https://sites.google.com/view/nikikilbertus
Yuki M. Asano Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands Multimodal Learning Systems German, English, Japanese https://yukimasano.github.io/
Sayan Mukherjee Member     English, Bengali https://sayanmuk.github.io/