Tom Heskes is full professor of Artificial Intelligence. After receiving his PhD on neural networks, he worked as a postdoc at the Beckman Institute in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Back in the Netherlands, he joined SNN, the Foundation for Neural Networks. Tom Heskes is VICI laureate, received two TOP grants (EW and ZonMW), and has been (co-)leading various other national and European projects.
Heskes’ research concerns the development, understanding, and application of machine learning methods, currently in particular deep learning and causal inference. He works on applications in other scientific disciplines, in collaboration with physicists, astronomers, neuroscientists, biologists, and medical specialists, as well as in industry, among others through his spin-off company Machine2Learn.
