Yann LeCun

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Birth Year

1960

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Background6 General1

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 →

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun—view →

General

Websitehttp://yann.lecun.com—view →

Career History

Organization	Title	Start	Source	Notes	Source check
New York University	Silver Professor of Computer Science	2003	en.wikipedia.org	Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute; founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science	Not checked
Meta AI (FAIR)	VP & Chief AI Scientist	2013	en.wikipedia.org	Founded Facebook AI Research (FAIR); Turing Award winner (2018) with Hinton and Bengio; prominent AI risk skeptic	Not checked

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