Kilian Weinberger

Kilian Q. Weinberger is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Lawrence Saul and holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computing from the University of Oxford. He was born and raised on planet Earth.

His research focuses on machine learning and its applications, including learning under resource constraints, metric learning, AI for science, computer vision, autonomous vehicles, Gaussian processes, and deep learning. Before joining Cornell, he was an Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and previously a research scientist at Yahoo! Research in Santa Clara.

He has received Best Paper Awards at ICML CVPR, AISTATS, and KDD, the AAAI Outstanding Senior Program Chair Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the Daniel M. Lazar ’29 Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Ann S. Bowers Teaching and Advising Excellence Award.
He served as the seventh President of ICML, and has been a member of the Sloan Research Fellowships Selection Committee since 2024. When he is not working or injured he loves running.