{"id":9770,"date":"2025-05-20T10:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/?post_type=team&#038;p=9770"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:37:09","slug":"josef-hochreiter","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/persons\/team\/josef-hochreiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepp Hochreiter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Short bio:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Josef &#8220;Sepp&#8221; Hochreiter<\/strong>&nbsp; is a German <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_scientist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">computer scientist<\/a>. Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Kepler_University_of_Linz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johannes Kepler University<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linz<\/a> after having led the Institute of Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2018. In 2017 he became the head of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI Lab. Hochreiter is also a founding director of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI). Previously, he was at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/a>, at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Colorado_Boulder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Colorado Boulder<\/a>, and at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technical_University_of_Munich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technical University of Munich<\/a>. He is a chair of the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hochreiter has made contributions in the fields of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machine_learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">machine learning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deep learning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bioinformatics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bioinformatics<\/a>, most notably the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_short-term_memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long short-term memory<\/a> (LSTM) neural network architecture, but also in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meta-learning_(computer_science)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meta-learning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reinforcement_learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinforcement learning<\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biclustering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biclustering<\/a> with application to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bioinformatics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bioinformatics<\/a> data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sepp Hochreiter | IT:U<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/it-u.at\/en\/persons\/team\/josef-hochreiter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sepp Hochreiter | IT:U\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Short bio: Josef &#8220;Sepp&#8221; Hochreiter&nbsp; is a German computer scientist. 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