Ulrike von Luxburg

Ulrike von Luxburg (born 1975) is a German computer scientist known for her work on spectral clustering and graph Laplacians in machine learning.

She became a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, and completed a doctorate through work there in 2004.

[2] Her dissertation, Statistical Learning with Similarity and Dissimilarity Functions, was promoted through Technische Universität Berlin, jointly by Stefan Jähnichen [de] and Bernhard Schölkopf.

[2][4] From 2007 to 2012, she was a research group leader in learning theory at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

[2] Next, she became Heisenberg Professor for Machine learning at the University of Hamburg from 2012 to 2015, when she took her current position at the University of Tübingen as professor for the theory of machine learning.