Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jurgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963) is a German computer scientist noted for his work in artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks; he has been described by media outlets as a leading pioneer of modern artificial intelligence. He is scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Switzerland, and also director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative and a professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. He is best known for his work on long short-term memory (LSTM), a neural network architecture that was the dominant technique for various natural language processing tasks in research and commercial applications during the 2010s; he also introduced principles of dynamic neural networks, meta-learning, generative adversarial networks and linear transformers, all of which are widespread in modern AI.