Guy Van Den Broeck
Amazon Scholar at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolGuy Van Den Broeck is a machine learning and AI researcher with 15 years of experience bridging rigorous academic research and industry impact, currently a Full Professor at UCLA and an Amazon Scholar. His work focuses on statistical relational learning, lifted probabilistic inference, and probabilistic programming, with a track record of translating probabilistic reasoning into practical systems through roles at RelationalAI and long-standing collaborations between KU Leuven and UCLA. He combines deep theoretical expertise (PhD KU Leuven) with production-minded thinking, driving advances in probabilistic databases and knowledge representation that inform scalable AI applications. Based in Los Angeles, he is known for blending elegant graphical-model theory with tooling for real-world probabilistic systems, a perspective shaped by both academic leadership and industry engineering.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Engineering, PhD in Engineering at KU Leuven
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (115)
science10
logic10
julia10
probabilistic-reasoning10
electrical-engineering10
automata10
probabilistic10
probabilistic-graphical-models10
root-finding9
markov-decision-processes9
programming-language9
probabilistic-programming9
machine-learning9
hpc9
precompilation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UCLA-StarAI/Forclift
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
Tractables/Alea.jl
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 245 commits, 77 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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