Yann LeCun

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computer scientist machine learning researcher person researcher

Yann LeCun is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational work in deep learning and convolutional neural networks, which has profoundly shaped modern artificial intelligence.

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almaMater	ESIEE Paris ⓘ Université Paris Cité ⓘ surface form: Université Pierre et Marie Curie
awardReceived	IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award ⓘ Légion d'honneur ⓘ surface form: Legion of Honour Lovie Lifetime Achievement Award ⓘ Milner Award and Lecture ⓘ surface form: Royal Society Milner Award Turing Award ⓘ
birthDate	1960-07-08 ⓘ
birthPlace	Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France ⓘ
citizenship	France ⓘ
coined	LeNet ⓘ
degree	PhD in computer science ⓘ
developed	LeNet-5 convolutional neural network architecture ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	Maurice Milgram ⓘ
employer	Bell Telephone Laboratories ⓘ surface form: AT&T Bell Labs Facebook ⓘ Facebook ⓘ surface form: Meta Platforms NEC Research Institute ⓘ New York University ⓘ
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field	artificial intelligence ⓘ computer science ⓘ computer vision ⓘ deep learning ⓘ machine learning ⓘ
fullName	Yann LeCun self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Yann André LeCun
givenName	Yann ⓘ
knownFor	LeNet ⓘ convolutional neural networks ⓘ deep learning ⓘ energy-based models ⓘ gradient-based learning for document recognition ⓘ self-supervised learning advocacy ⓘ
memberOf	Académie des Sciences ⓘ surface form: French Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering ⓘ surface form: US National Academy of Engineering
nationality	French ⓘ
position	Chief AI Scientist at Meta ⓘ Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science ⓘ Professor at New York University ⓘ
researchInterest	autonomous intelligence ⓘ energy-based models ⓘ representation learning ⓘ self-supervised learning ⓘ
turingAwardCoRecipient	Geoffrey Hinton ⓘ Yoshua Bengio ⓘ
turingAwardFor	conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing ⓘ
turingAwardYear	2018 ⓘ

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