08.12.2025
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Tom Sterkenburg Wins Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Honored for His Work at the Intersection of Philosophy, Statistics, and Machine Learning
MCML JRG Leader Tom Sterkenburg has been awarded the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW). The prize was presented at the Academy’s Ceremonial Annual Meeting on 6 December 2025 in Munich.
With its annual science prizes, the BAdW honors outstanding early-career researchers across disciplines. The Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize is awarded alternately in the humanities and the natural sciences. Tom Sterkenburg’s research is situated at the intersection of philosophy, statistics, and computer science. His work combines mathematical modeling, algorithmic simulation, and philosophical analysis to address the classical problem of induction in the context of machine learning.
Congrats to Tom on this achievement!
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