Diederik P. Kingma

Dutch computer scientist

Diederik P. "Durk" Kingma (1983) is a Dutch computer scientist and businessman. He is a co-founder of OpenAI and currently employed by Anthropic.2

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Born 1983.1

About

Earlier he worked at Google and worked on generative AI, specifically text-to-image models.

Durk completed his MSc at Utrecht University in 2009 and completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, where he was supervised by Max Welling. His PhD work included the variational autoencoder (VAE) and the widely used Adam optimizer.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 2017University of Amsterdam Doctor of Philosophy3

Career

Occupation: scientist.6

  • Date not recordedWorked at Google Brain4
  • Date not recordedFounded OpenAI5