Full Name

Frank Hutter

Job Title

Co-founder and CEO

Company

Prior Labs

Speaker Bio

Frank Hutter is the co-founder and CEO of Prior Labs, the company behind Tabular Foundation Models. He is also a PI at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Director of the ELLIS unit Freiburg, where he is a Full Professor of Machine Learning (currently on leave), and a three-time recipient of grants from the European Research Council (ERC). He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia and is a Fellow of EurAI and ELLIS. Before founding Prior Labs, Frank pioneered the field of automated machine learning (AutoML), co-authoring the first AutoML book, the first AutoML MOOC, and the widely-used AutoML systems Auto-WEKA and Auto-sklearn, as well as organizing 20+ workshops on AutoML-related topics and co-founding the AutoML conference. In recent years his focus has shifted to tabular foundation models.