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Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Professor and Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI at KAUSTScientific Director at IDSIA

🇩🇪 German

Schmidhuber co-created LSTM, a neural-network design that remembers useful information across long sequences. It became a foundation for speech recognition, translation, and handwriting systems, putting ideas from his research group inside everyday technologies before Transformers took over many of those tasks.

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Background

Current roles
Professor and Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI 2021-present
Scientific Director 1995-present
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26338,138314,438290,737Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
338,138citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,572 since Aug 1, '26
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