Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Sepp Hochreiter

Sepp Hochreiter

Corresponding Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Austria since 2024

  • Johannes Kepler Universität Linz

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0000-0001-7449-2528

Research Areas:

  • Computer Sciences
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Bioinformatics

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft (OCG)

Selected Prizes:

  • 2020: IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (highest award in Deep Learning)
  • 2023: German KI-lnnovation Award of the "Welt"
  • 2022: Austrian Innovation Award
  • 2022: Digitalos (Digital Pioneer Award)
  • 2019: Upper Austrian of the year: category economic and science

Selected Publications:

  • Hochreiter, S., & Schmidhuber, J. (1997). Long shortterm memory. Neural computation, 9, 1735-1780.
  • Heusel, M., Ramsauer, H., Unterthlner, T., Nessler, B., &Hochreiter, S. (2017). GANs trained by a two time-scale update rule converge to a local Nash equilibrium. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.
  • Clevert, O.-A., Unterthiner, T, & Hochreiter, S. (2016). Fast and Accurate Deep Net-work Learning by Exponential Linear Units (ELUs). 4th International Conference on Leaming Representations.
  • Klambauer, G., Unterthiner, T., Mayr, A., & Hochreiter, S. (2017). Self-normalizing neural nehvorks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 31, 972-981.
  • Hochreiter, S. (1998). The vanishing gradient problem during leaming recurrent neural nets and problem solutions. Internat. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowledge- Based Sys-tems, 6, 107-116.