Klaus-Robert Müller

Klaus-Robert Müller is a Full Professor for Machine Learning at the department of Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin and at the Department of Artificial at Korea University, Seoul. Since 2021, he is director of the Berlin Institute for Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) – one of 5 permanently funded German national centers for AI. In 2020/2021 and again in 2024/2025 he was on a short (1 year long) sabbatical from academia to lead a team at Google Brain rsp. DeepMind as Principal Researcher. In 2012, he was elected to be a member of the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina, in 2017 of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, in 2022 member of the German National Academy of Engineering and also in 2017 as an external scientific member of the Max-Planck Society (MPII). Among other awards, he received the Berlin Science prize awarded by the governing Mayor of Berlin (2014); in 2017 the Vodafone Innovation Award; in 2024 the Hector Science award and the Feynman award; in 2025 the IEEE CIS Neural Network Pioneer Award and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award. Consecutively from 2019 on he became ISI Highly Cited Researcher. His research interests are AI for the sciences. GS > 174000, h 170. 49 of his former students or PostDocs became Professors.