Samy Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist currently serving as senior director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research at Apple.
14 Facts About Samy Bengio
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Samy Bengio was formerly a longtime scientist at Google, where he led a large group of researchers working in machine learning, including adversarial settings.
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Samy Bengio left Google shortly after the company fired Timnit Gebru without first notifying him.
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At the time, Samy Bengio said that he had been "stunned" by what happened to Gebru.
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Samy Bengio worked at the IDIAP Research Institute and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, from 1999 to 2007.
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Samy Bengio was appointed adjunct professor in Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in 2024.
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Samy Bengio was general chair of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2018, served as program chair of the conference in 2017, and is currently a board member.
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Samy Bengio was program chair of ICLR and sits on its board.
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Samy Bengio is a co-author of Torch, the ancestor of PyTorch, one of today's two largest machine learning frameworks.
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Samy Bengio is an editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
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Samy Bengio was born to two Moroccan Jews who emigrated to France and Canada.
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Samy Bengio is the brother of Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio.
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Samy Bengio's father, Carlo Bengio, was a pharmacist who wrote theatre pieces and ran a Sephardic theatrical troupe in Montreal that played Judeo-Arabic pieces.
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Samy Bengio's mother, Celia Moreno, is an artist who played in one of the major theatre scenes of Morocco that was run by Tayeb Seddiki in the 1970s.