Profile

Sepp Hochreiter is heading the Institute for Machine Learning,

the LIT AI Lab and the AUDI.JKU deep learning center at the

Johannes Kepler University of Linz and is director of the

Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence

(IARAI). He is regarded as a pioneer of Deep Learning as he

discovered the fundamental deep learning problem: deep

neural networks are hard to train, because they suffer from the

now famous problem of vanishing or exploding gradients. He

is best known for inventing the long short-term memory

(LSTM) in his diploma thesis 1991 which was later published

in 1997. LSTMs have emerged into the best-performing

techniques in speech and language processing and are used in

Google’s Android, in Apple’s iOS, Google’s translate,

Amazon’s Alexa, and Facebook’s translation. Currently, Sepp

Hochreiter is advancing the theoretical foundation of Deep

Learning, investigates new algorithms for deep learning, and

reinforcement learning. His current research projects include

Deep Learning for climate change, smart cities, drug design,

for text and language analysis, for vision, and in particular for

autonomous driving.