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Jürgen Schmidhuber

Professor and Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI at KAUST
Scientific Director at IDSIA
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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Technical University of Munich