Sepp Hochreiter
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February 14, 1967 Mühldorf, Germany |
| Residence | Austria |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | machine learning, bioinformatics |
| Institutions | Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Alma mater | Technische Universität München |
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Sepp Hochreiter (born Josef Hochreiter 1967, in Mühldorf) is a German computer scientist. Since 2006 he has been head of the Institute of Bioinformatics at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz. Previously, he was at the Technical University of Berlin, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the Technical University of Munich.
Sepp Hochreiter has made numerous contributions in the fields of machine learning and bioinformatics. He developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) for which the first results were reported in his diploma thesis in 1991. The main LSTM paper appeared in 1997 and is considered as a discovery that is a milestone in the timeline of machine learning. He applied biclustering methods to drug discovery and toxicology. He extended support vector machines to handle kernels that are not kernels that are not positive definite with the "Potential Support Vector Machine" (PSVM) model, and applied this model to feature selection, especially to gene selection for microarray data. Also in biotechnology, he developed "Factor Analysis for Robust Microarray Summarization" (FARMS).
In addition to his research contributions, Sepp Hochreiter is broadly active within his field: he launched the Bioinformatics Working Group at the Austrian Computer Society; he is founding board member of different bioinformatics start-up companies; he was program chair of the conference Bioinformatics Research and Development,; he is conference chair of the conference Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA); and he is editor, program committee member, and reviewer for international journals and conferences. As a faculty member at Johannes Kepler Linz, he founded the Bachelors Program in Bioinformatics, which is a cross-border, double-degree study program together with the University of South-Bohemia in České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic. He also established the Masters Program in Bioinformatics, where he is still the acting dean of both studies.
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