<p>My scientific interests are in the field of inference from empirical data, in particular machine learning and perception (<a href="http://www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/research/dep/bs.html">Department of Empirical Inference</a>). In particular, I study kernel methods for extracting regularities from possibly high-dimensional data. These regularities are usually statistical ones, however, in recent years I have also become interested in methods for finding causal regularities.</p><p>To learn more about our work, you may want to take a look at the <a href="http://www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/research/dep/bs.html">Department Overview</a>.</p><p>Many of the papers can downloaded if you click on the tab "publications;" the older ones usually from <a href="http://www.kernel-machines.org/">http://www.kernel-machines.org/</a>. A starting point is the first chapter of our book Learning with Kernels, available online. If your interest in machine learning is a mathematical one, you might prefer our review paper in the Annals of Statistics (<a href="http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0701/0701907v3.pdf">arXiv link</a>). For a general audience, I wrote a short high-level introduction in German that appeared in the Jahrbuch of the Max Planck Society.</p><p>Click <a href="http://www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Research/Departments/Empirical_Inference/Orion_15.12.04_04h42m.jpg">here</a> for a photograph of a beautiful northern light, which I took a few years ago from the plane on the way home from NIPS.</p><p>If you'd like to contact me, please consider these two notes:<br>1. I just became co-editor-in-chief of JMLR. I work for <a href="http://jmlr.org/">JMLR</a> because I believe in its open access model, but it takes a lot of time. During my JMLR term, please don't convince me to do other journal or grant reviewing duties.<br>2. I am not very organized with my e-mail -- so if you want to apply for a position in my lab, please send your application only to <a href="mailto:Sekretariat-Schoelkopf@tuebingen.mpg.de">Sekretariat-Schoelkopf@tuebingen.mpg.de</a>. Note that we do not respond to non-personalized applications that look like they are being sent to a large number of places simultaneously.</p>