Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun
LeCun in 2024
Born (1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 64)
Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
Citizenship
Alma mater
Known forDeep learning
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisModeles connexionnistes de l'apprentissage (connectionist learning models) (1987)
Doctoral advisorMaurice Milgram
Websiteyann.lecun.com Edit this at Wikidata

Yann André LeCun[1] (/ləˈkʌn/ lə-KUN, French: [ləkœ̃];[2] originally spelled Le Cun;[2] born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.[3][4]

He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNNs).[5][6] He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.

In 2018, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton, received the Turing Award for their work on deep learning.[7] The three are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning".[8][9][10][11][12][13]

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  3. ^ "Artificial-intelligence pioneers win $1 million Turing Award". The Washington Post.
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  5. ^ "Convolutional Nets and CIFAR-10: An Interview with Yann LeCun". No Free Hunch. 22 December 2014.
  6. ^ LeCun, Yann; Bottou, Léon; Bengio, Yoshua; Haffner, Patrick (1998). "Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition" (PDF). Proceedings of the IEEE. 86 (11): 2278–2324. doi:10.1109/5.726791. S2CID 14542261.
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  9. ^ Ranosa, Ted (29 March 2019). "Godfathers Of AI Win This Year's Turing Award And $1 Million". Tech Times. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  10. ^ Reporters, Telegraph (27 March 2019). "Nobel prize of tech awarded to 'godfathers of AI'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  11. ^ Shead, Sam. "The 3 'Godfathers' Of AI Have Won The Prestigious $1M Turing Prize". Forbes. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  12. ^ Ray, Tiernan. "Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun say the field can fix its flaws". ZDNet. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  13. ^ Kahn, Jeremy (27 March 2019). "Three 'Godfathers of Deep Learning' Selected for Turing Award". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.