Technical University of Munich
Cesare AlippiScientific Director and Full Professor · IDSIAResearcher↗Both at IDSIA
Researcher · Academic
Jürgen Schmidhuber
KAUSTProfessor and Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI
IDSIAScientific Director
Sakana AIChief Scientific Advisor
Schmidhuber co-created long short-term memory (LSTM) with Sepp Hochreiter, giving neural networks a way to retain useful information over time.[1] The design helped power speech recognition, translation and handwriting systems, bringing his group’s research into everyday technology.[2]
Career & education
Current roles
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations349,035As of Nov 1, '26
citations+6,124Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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Selected contributions
Long Short-Term Memory
With Sepp HochreiterLSTM helps neural networks remember information over long sequences.
Multi-column deep neural network for traffic sign classification
Combined neural networks to recognize traffic signs, exceeding the benchmark's human comparison score.
World Models
With David HaTrained agents inside a learned simulation of their environment before testing them in the original.
References
- Long Short-Term Memory — Hochreiter and Schmidhuber (1997)people.idsia.ch
Schmidhuber co-created long short-term memory (LSTM) with Sepp Hochreiter, giving neural networks a way to retain useful information over time.
- NVIDIA — LSTM applications in speech, translation and handwritingdeveloper.nvidia.com
The design helped power speech recognition, translation and handwriting systems, bringing his group’s research into everyday technology.
- Welcoming Jürgen Schmidhuber to Sakana AI — official announcementsakana.ai
September 24, 2026 announcement confirms the concurrent advisory appointment and work with the new lab.
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