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Yann LeCun
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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]
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Born | (1960-07-08) 8 July 1960 (age 64) Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France |
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Known for | Deep learning |
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Thesis | Modèles connexionnistes de l'apprentissage (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Maurice Milgram |
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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]