Matthias Bethge Professor for Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning University of Tübingen

Matthias Bethge is Professor for Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning at the University of Tübingen and director of the Tübingen AI Center, a joint center between Tübingen University and MPI for Intelligent Systems that is part of the German AI strategy. He is also an Amazon scholar and co-founder of Deepart UG, and Layer7 AI GmbH, and co-initiator of the European ELLIS initiative. His main research focus is on robust vision and neural decision making with the goal to advance internal model learning with neural networks. He received the first Bernstein Prize for Computational Neuroscience in 2006 and later became director of the Bernstein Center Tübingen and vice chair of the German Bernstein network. His work on neural style transfer was among the top-ten most popular publications in 2015 among all disciplines (altmetric). He has been serving as area chair for various conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, Cosyne and as general chair for the Bernstein conference, and initiated the “BWKI”, a German-wide school competition for AI.