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Researcher

Laurens van der Maaten

Work by Laurens van der Maaten ranges from data visualization to convolutional networks. With Geoffrey Hinton, he published Visualizing Data using t-SNE in 2008. He completed a doctorate at Tilburg University in 2009 and joined Facebook AI Research in March 2015. His paper Densely Connected Convolutional Networks, written with Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu and Kilian Weinberger, won a Best Paper Award at CVPR 2017. As of October 2026, he is a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

Timeline

  1. 2008

    t-SNE with Geoffrey Hinton

    He and Geoffrey Hinton publish Visualizing Data using t-SNE in 2008.

  2. 2009

    A doctorate at Tilburg

    He earns a doctorate from Tilburg University in 2009.

  3. March 2015

    Joining Facebook AI Research

    He joins Facebook AI Research in March 2015, after working as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology and a post-doctoral researcher at UC San Diego.

  4. August 2016

    Densely connected networks

    He co-authors Densely Connected Convolutional Networks with Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu and Kilian Weinberger, and the arXiv version appears in August 2016.

  5. 2017

    A CVPR Best Paper Award

    Densely Connected Convolutional Networks wins a Best Paper Award at CVPR 2017.

  6. As of October 2026

    Member of technical staff at Anthropic

    He is a member of technical staff at Anthropic, after a post as a distinguished research scientist at Meta AI.

Sources and credits

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  1. Visualizing Data using t-SNE jmlr.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Laurens van der Maaten - Wikidata wikidata.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Laurens van der Maaten – Laurens van der Maaten lvdmaaten.github.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. [1608.06993] Densely Connected Convolutional Networks arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. GitHub - liuzhuang13/DenseNet: Densely Connected Convolutional Networks, In CVPR 2017 (Best Paper Award). · GitHub github.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Zhuang Liu from YaoClass 30 Honored with Best Paper Award at CVPR 2017-Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 14 October 2026.