Manuel Gomez Rodriguez is a tenured faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). His research interests lie in the development of human-centric machine learning models and algorithms. He has co-authored over 50 publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, UAI, AISTATS, AAAI, KDD, WWW) and journals (PNAS, Nature Communications, JMLR, TMLR).
Manuel is an ELLIS Fellow and has received several recognitions for his research, including an ERC Starting Grant, an outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS and a Best Research Paper Honorable Mention at KDD and WWW. He is also an Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research and has served as Area Chair and/or Senior Area Chair in the Program Committee of every major conference in machine learning, data mining and the Web. Manuel holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2009 and 2013) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University Carlos III in Madrid, Spain (2006).