Title: G-CEALS: Gaussian Cluster Embedding in Autoencoder Latent Space for Tabular Data Representation. Abstract: The latent representation in an autoencoder achieves dimensionality reduction via self-supervised data reconstruction learning. The quality of latent representations has been improved for images by jointly learning a t-distributed embedding with clustering inspired by the neighborhood embedding concept proposed for data visualization. In this paper, we discuss the objectives of clustering and data visualization to present a novel Gaussian Cluster Embedding in Autoencoder Latent Space (G-CEALS) by replacing t-distributions with Gaussian clusters. Unlike current methods, the proposed method defines the Gaussian embedding and the target cluster distribution independently to accommodate any clustering algorithm in representation learning. The proposed G-CEALS method outperforms six baseline clustering and cluster embedding methods on five out of seven tabular data sets and is on par with a cluster embedding method on the sixth data set. In general, G-CEALS outperforms all six methods for clustering tabular data when the data dimensionality is greater than ten. Realizing the superior performance of traditional machine learning with tabular data over deep learning, this paper shows one of the first joint representation learning and clustering methods to improve the clustering of tabular data.