Sepp Hochreiter heads the Institute for Machine Learning, the LIT AI Lab, and the AUDI.JKU deep learning center at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. He is director of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI) and a pioneer of deep learning. His contributions in Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and the analysis of the vanishing gradient are viewed as milestones and key moments in the history of both machine learning and deep learning. He also is a full professor at the Johannes Kepler University and head of the Institute for Machine Learning.