Yann

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computer scientist engineer person researcher

Yann is the given name of Yann LeCun, a pioneering computer scientist known for his foundational work in deep learning and convolutional neural networks.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	computer scientist → engineer → person → researcher →
awardReceived	IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award → Légion d'honneur → Royal Society Milner Award → Turing Award →
birthName	Yann André LeCun →
birthPlace	Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France →
citizenship	France → United States of America →
coinedTerm	self-supervised learning (in modern ML sense) →
doctoralAdvisor	Maurice Milgram →
educatedAt	ESIEE Paris → Université Pierre et Marie Curie →
employer	Meta Platforms → New York University →
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence → computer science → computer vision → deep learning → machine learning →
givenName	Yann →
hasFamilyName	LeCun →
hasGivenName	Yann →
hasWorkedAt	AT&T Bell Labs → Facebook AI Research → NEC Research Institute →
knownFor	LeNet → backpropagation in convolutional networks → convolutional neural networks → deep learning → handwritten digit recognition → work on gradient-based learning →
memberOf	French Academy of Sciences → US National Academy of Engineering →
nationality	American → French →
positionHeld	Chief AI Scientist at Meta → Professor at New York University →
researchInterest	energy-based models → representation learning → self-supervised learning →
sharesTuringAwardWith	Geoffrey Hinton → Yoshua Bengio →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Yann Arthus-Bertrand → Yann LeCun → Yann LeCun →	givenName
Yann LeCun →	hasGivenName