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Yann LeCun

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Birth Year
1960

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Background

Birth Year1960—view →
EducationPhD in Computer Science, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI, 1987); Diplome d'Ingenieur, ESIEE Paris—view →
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WLN3QrAAAAAJ—view →
Notable ForPioneer of convolutional neural networks (CNNs); Chief AI Scientist at Meta; Turing Award 2018; vocal skeptic of AGI existential risk—view →
Social Media@ylecun—view →
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun—view →

General

Websitehttp://yann.lecun.com—view →

Career History

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OrganizationTitleStartSourceNotesSource check
New York UniversitySilver Professor of Computer Science2003en.wikipedia.orgSilver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute; founding director of the NYU Center for Data ScienceNot checked
Meta AI (FAIR)VP & Chief AI Scientist2013en.wikipedia.orgFounded Facebook AI Research (FAIR); Turing Award winner (2018) with Hinton and Bengio; prominent AI risk skepticNot checked
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