Yoshua Bengio

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artificial intelligence researcher computer scientist deep learning pioneer human

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and deep learning pioneer whose work on neural networks and representation learning has been foundational to modern artificial intelligence.

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Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artificial intelligence researcher → computer scientist → deep learning pioneer → human →
almaMater	McGill University →
awardReceived	Canada CIFAR AI Chair → Killam Prize → Officer of the Order of Canada → Royal Society of Canada Fellowship → Turing Award →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1964-03-05 →
birthPlace	Paris →
citizenship	Canada →
coAuthorOf	Deep Learning (book) →
coAuthorWith	Aaron Courville → Ian Goodfellow →
coFounded	Element AI →
directorOf	Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute →
doctoralAdvisor	René Thomas →
educatedAt	McGill University →
employer	Université de Montréal →
familyName	Bengio →
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence → deep learning → machine learning → neural networks → representation learning →
founded	Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute →
givenName	Yoshua →
jobTitle	professor →
knownFor	attention mechanisms in neural networks → backpropagation research → deep learning → generative models → neural networks → representation learning → sequence modeling with neural networks →
languageSpoken	English → French →
memberOf	Royal Society of Canada →
name	Yoshua Bengio →
nationality	Canada →
notableWork	Deep Learning (book) →
positionHeld	Canada CIFAR AI Chair →
researchInterest	optimization for neural networks → probabilistic models → representation learning → unsupervised learning →
residence	Montreal →
workInstitution	Université de Montréal →

Referenced by (27)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Deep Learning (book) → Deep Learning (book) → Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition →	author
Aaron Courville → Ian Goodfellow →	coAuthorWith
Ian Goodfellow → Koray Kavukcuoglu →	doctoralAdvisor
Element AI → Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute →	foundedBy
Aaron Courville → Samy Bengio →	hasAcademicAdvisor
Léon Bottou →	coauthorWith
Geoffrey Hinton →	coRecipientWith
LeNet →	developer
Aaron Courville →	doctoralStudentOf
Element AI →	employerOf
Yoshua Bengio ("Bengio") →	familyName
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute →	hasLeader
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research →	hasNotableLaureates
Turing Award →	hasNotableRecipient
Yoshua Bengio →	name
Yoshua →	notableBearer
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute →	notableResearcher
Geoffrey Hinton →	notableStudent
Yann LeCun →	sharesTuringAwardWith
Samy Bengio →	sibling
Yann LeCun →	turingAwardCoRecipient