Yann LeCun
at AMI Labs·Founded Meta, AMI Labs, New York University Center for Data Science
Executive Chairman, AMI Labs - Turing Award 2018
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Executive Chairman and co-founder of AMI Labs, a startup specialized in world models (JEPA architecture). Winner of the 2018 Turing Award, pioneer of deep learning and inventor of convolutional neural networks. Former Chief AI Scientist at Meta (2013-2025). Professor at NYU, originally from Paris.
A French pioneer of deep learning
Yann LeCun is one of the three "fathers of deep learning", along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio. Born in Paris in 1960, he revolutionized artificial intelligence by inventing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), now ubiquitous in image recognition.
Career
After a PhD at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and a spell at AT&T Bell Labs, he joined New York University as a professor. In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg recruited him to create Facebook AI Research (FAIR). He is now Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
Awards
In 2018, he received the Turing Award - the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science - jointly with Hinton and Bengio, for their seminal work on deep learning.