Jürgen Schmidhuber

Accomplishments

• Scientific director of IDSIA since 1995; director of KAUST's AI Initiative since 2021.¹
• Lab developed LSTM networks that won early pattern recognition competitions and saw wide commercial use.¹
• IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2016).¹

IDSIA, KAUST, and NNAISENSE

Schmidhuber has been scientific director of IDSIA in Lugano since March 1995, director of the AI Initiative at KAUST since 2021, and co-chair of the KAUST Center for Generative AI since 2024. Schmidhuber co-founded NNAISENSE in 2014 and served as president (2014–2017) and chief scientist (2017–2022).¹

LSTM and deep learning

Schmidhuber's lab's CTC-trained LSTM was the first recurrent neural network to win international pattern recognition competitions (2009). Subsequent lab work included early GPU-trained deep feedforward networks and contest-winning computer vision systems. Schmidhuber has received the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2016) and other honors.¹

Timeline

1. Mar 1995Schmidhuber became scientific director of IDSIA.¹
2. 2009CTC-trained LSTM from Schmidhuber's lab won international pattern recognition competitions.¹
3. 2014Schmidhuber co-founded NNAISENSE.¹
4. 2021Schmidhuber became director of the AI Initiative at KAUST.¹
5. 2024Schmidhuber became co-chair of the KAUST Center for Generative AI.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Co-founder; former President and Chief Scientist, NNAISENSE (2014 – 2022)¹

Honors and recognition

• IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award · IEEE, 2016¹
• Helmholtz Award · International Neural Networks Society, 2013¹

Where they work

• IDSIA 1 person in the wiki
• KAUST 1 person in the wiki

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