Felix Gers

Felix Gers is a professor of computer science at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin.^[1] With Jürgen Schmidhuber and Fred Cummins, he introduced the forget gate to the long short-term memory recurrent neural network architecture.^[2][3] This modification of the original^[4] architecture has been shown to be crucial to the success of the LSTM at such tasks as speech and handwriting recognition.^[3]

Felix Gers
Occupation	Professor of computer science
Employer	Berlin University of Applied Sciences
Known for	Introducing the forget gate to LSTM architecture
Notable work	Research in recurrent neural networks