Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
About
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a professor at NYU. He is one of the pioneers of deep learning, particularly known for his work on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that revolutionized computer vision. He shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on deep learning.
Key Contributions
- Invented convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
- 2018 Turing Award recipient
- Chief AI Scientist at Meta
- Pioneered handwriting recognition systems
- Vocal advocate for open AI research
