Yann LeCun

Yann André LeCun is a Turing Award winning French 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 atNew York Universityand Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist atMeta.

He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN) and is a founding father ofconvolutional nets. He is also one of the main creators of theDjVu image compression technology(together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.

LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award (often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing"), together withYoshua BengioandGeoffrey Hinton, for their work on deep learning. The three are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning".