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Sepp Hochreiter

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Professor and Head of the Institute for Machine Learning at Johannes Kepler University LinzCo-founder and Chief Scientist at NXAI

🇦🇹 Austrian

Hochreiter discovered why early neural networks struggled to remember events far back in a sequence, then co-created LSTM to solve the problem. LSTM went on to power major advances in speech, translation, and handwriting recognition and remains one of the landmark designs in deep learning.

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Background

Current roles
Professor and Head of the Institute for Machine Learning
Co-founder and Chief Scientist 2024-present
Born1967
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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, '26241,520220,316199,111Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
241,520citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,890 since Aug 1, '26
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