Markus Nagel is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Qualcomm AI Research in Amsterdam, leading a team focused on pioneering model efficiency. His expertise lies at the intersection of deep learning compression, pruning, and hardware-aware quantization. Previously, he was an ML Specialist at Scyfer (acquired by Qualcomm in 2017). Markus holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam and frequently publishes state-of-the-art efficiency research at top-tier AI venues like NeurIPS, ICML, and ICCV.