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Sepp Hochreiter

German computer scientist
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Facts

19 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[19]
Date of birth
February 14, 1967
Place of birth
Mühldorf am Inn
Country of citizenship
Germany[6]
Occupation
bioinformatician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher
Employer
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Technical University of Munich, Allianz SE[9][10]
Field of work
machine learning, bioinformatics[7][8]
Educated at
Technical University of Munich, Munich University of Applied Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen, Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Munich[11][12]
Award received
German AI Award, Wilhelm Exner Medal[14][15]
Official website
www.jku.at[24]
Doctoral advisor
Wilfried Brauer[13]
Languages spoken, written or signed
German, English[25][26]
Family name
Hochreiter[21]
Given name
Sepp, Josef[22][23]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[28]
Member of
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, Austrian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[16][17][18]
Name in native language
Sepp Hochreiter[27]
Residence
Austria[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Josef Sepp Hochreiter en Sepp Hochreiter ja ゼップ・ホッフライター ko 요제프 호흐라이터 ko 제프 호흐라이터 nl Josef Sepp Hochreiter uk Гохрайтер Зепп uk Зепп Гохрайтер zh 塞普·霍赫赖特 zh 赛普·霍克赖特 zh-hans 塞普·霍赫赖特 zh-hant 塞普·霍赫賴特 zh-hant 賽普·霍克賴特
🔖 Identifiers · 24
ISNI
0000000383343158
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7449-2528
VIAF cluster ID
268942105
Library of Congress authority ID
nb2007008283
GND ID
1268320870
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sepp Hochreiter - Buch Wien 2025.JPG ↗
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf11460522
DBLP author ID
h/SeppHochreiter
DDB person (GND) ID
1268320870
Freebase ID
/m/0gx09qn
Google Scholar author ID
tvUH3WMAAAAJ
IdRef ID
13235246X
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Leopoldina member ID (new)
sepp-hochreiter
Loop ID
1259744
MR Author ID
783863
MTMT author ID
10064885
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
220038
NIPS Proceedings author ID
sepp-hochreiter-1141
NL CR AUT ID
stk2007394014
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007451934905171
Scopus author ID
6602873810
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJtcMvDJY7h3bbQBbFCG73
Yale LUX ID
person/eb40a38a-bed8-471e-9213-9fce027704ad
ZbMATH author ID
hochreiter.sepp

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Author of 31
Accurate Prediction of Biological Assays with High-Throughput Microscopy Images and Convolutional Networks, A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling, Artificial neural networks and pathologists recognize basal cell carcinomas based on different histological patterns, Benchmarking a Catchment-Aware Long Short-Term MemoryNetwork (LSTM) for Large-Scale Hydrological Modeling, Boundary Graph Neural Networks for 3D Simulations, CLOOME: contrastive learning unlocks bioimaging databases for queries with chemical structures, Contrastive Tuning: A Little Help to Make Masked Autoencoders Forget, Coulomb GANs: Provably Optimal Nash Equilibria via Potential Fields +23 more
← Authored by 31
Accurate Prediction of Biological Assays with High-Throughput Microscopy Images and Convolutional Networks, A note on leveraging synergy in multiple meteorological data sets with deep learning for rainfall–runoff modeling, Artificial neural networks and pathologists recognize basal cell carcinomas based on different histological patterns, Benchmarking a Catchment-Aware Long Short-Term MemoryNetwork (LSTM) for Large-Scale Hydrological Modeling, Boundary Graph Neural Networks for 3D Simulations, CLOOME: contrastive learning unlocks bioimaging databases for queries with chemical structures, Contrastive Tuning: A Little Help to Make Masked Autoencoders Forget, Coulomb GANs: Provably Optimal Nash Equilibria via Potential Fields +23 more
Affiliated with 6
University of Alabama, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Bioinformatics Institute, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Geological Survey of Alabama, Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence
Educated at 5
Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Munich, FernUniversität in Hagen, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Employer 3
Technical University of Munich, Allianz SE, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Field of work 3
computer science, machine learning, bioinformatics
Occupation 3
computer scientist, bioinformatician, artificial intelligence researcher
Award received 2
Wilhelm Exner Medal, German AI Award
Given name 2
Josef, Sepp
Languages spoken, written or signed 2
English, German
Member of 2
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Austrian Academy of Sciences
← Discoverer or inventor 2
long short-term memory, vanishing gradient problem
Country of citizenship 1
Germany
Doctoral advisor 1
Wilfried Brauer
Doctoral advisors 1
Wilfried Brauer
Instance of 1
human
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Place of birth 1
Mühldorf am Inn
Residence 1
Austria
Sex or gender 1
male
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Sepp Hochreiter, born February 14, 1967, in Mühldorf am Inn [1], is a researcher in machine learning and bioinformatics [2]. He studied at the Technical University of Munich, Munich University of Applied Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen, and later returned to the Technical University of Munich [3]. His career includes positions at Allianz SE from 1992 to 1994, the Technical University of Munich, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he has worked since 2006 .

Hochreiter has received notable recognition, including the German AI Award and the Wilhelm Exner Medal . He is affiliated with several prestigious institutions, serving as a member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina [4][5][6].

Why It Matters

He is credited with the discovery of long short-term memory[29] and vanishing gradient problem[30].

FAQs

Where was Sepp Hochreiter born?

Sepp Hochreiter was born in Mühldorf am Inn[2].

What did Sepp Hochreiter do for work?

Sepp Hochreiter worked as a bioinformatician[3], computer scientist[4], and artificial intelligence researcher[5].

Where did Sepp Hochreiter go to school?

Sepp Hochreiter was educated at FernUniversität in Hagen[11] and Technical University of Munich[12].

What awards did Sepp Hochreiter receive?

Honors received include German AI Award[14] and Wilhelm Exner Medal[15].

What did Sepp Hochreiter discover?

Sepp Hochreiter is credited as discoverer of long short-term memory[29] and vanishing gradient problem[30].

Related Entities

Allianz SE Austria bioinformatics Bioinformatics Institute computer science computer scientist Germany long short-term memory machine learning Wilfried Brauer

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