Cyber Valley Podcast with Frank Hutter: “How AutoML Creates New Opportunities for Europe”

The next episode of the Cyber Valley Podcast features Frank Hutter, who joined the ELLIS Institute as Hector Fellow and Principal Investigator in May 2024. Frank has been a Full Professor for Machine Learning at the University of Freiburg since 2016, and an Emmy Noether Research Group Lead since 2013. He is a pioneer in the field of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), the science of progressively automating machine learning.

Frank’s research and expertise make him a distinguished guest at many conferences, workshops, and other events. In recent years, Frank has focused on developing the first foundation model for tabular data, TabPFN, and enhancing pretraining and fine-tuning techniques with AutoML.
In the fifth episode, Frank discusses:

• Tabular foundation models
• The role of AutoML in the age of foundation models like ChatGPT
• The importance of the ELLIS Institute and Cyber Valley for start-ups
• The significance of Open Source to the community
• Current trends in the field

For this and more, watch the full episode below and listen it on Spotify.

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