Klaus-Robert Müller received his
Diplom in mathematical physics and PhD in theoretical computer science from the
University of Karlsruhe. Following his Ph.D. he went to
Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow at GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science) Berlin (now part of
Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems), where he started building up the Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) group. From 1994 to 1995 he was a research fellow at
Shun'ichi Amari's lab at the
University of Tokyo. 1999 Müller became an associate professor for
neuroinformatics at the
University of Potsdam, transitioning to the full professorship for Neural Networks and Time Series Analysis in 2003. Since 2006 he holds the chair for
Machine Learning at
Technische Universität Berlin. Since 2012 he holds a distinguished professorship at
Korea University in
Seoul. He co-founded and is co-director of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC) of TU Berlin. As of 2017, 29 former doctoral or postdoctoral researchers of Klaus-Robert Müller have become full professors themselves.
Bernhard Schölkopf and Alexander J. Smola were supervised by him as members of his research group. Since 2020 he is director of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), a German National AI Competence Center, and director of the
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) unit Berlin. In 2020/2021 he spent his
sabbatical at
Google Brain as a principal scientist. ==Research==