Yann Andre LeCun is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience.
18 Facts About Yann LeCun
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Yann LeCun is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
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Yann LeCun is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks, and is a founding father of convolutional nets.
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Yann LeCun is one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology.
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Yann LeCun co-developed the Lush programming language with Leon Bottou.
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Yann LeCun was born at Soisy-sous-Montmorency in the suburbs of Paris.
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Yann LeCun's name was originally spelled Le Cun from the old Breton form Le Cunff and was from the region of Guingamp in northern Brittany.
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Yann LeCun received a Diplome d'Ingenieur from the ESIEE Paris in 1983 and a PhD in Computer Science from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in 1987 during which he proposed an early form of the back-propagation learning algorithm for neural networks.
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Yann LeCun is a professor at the Tandon School of Engineering.
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On 9 December 2013, Yann LeCun became the first director of Meta AI Research in New York City, and stepped down from the NYU-CDS directorship in early 2014.
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Yann LeCun was the chair and organiser of the "Learning Workshop" held every year between 1986 and 2012 in Snowbird, Utah.
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Yann LeCun is a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.
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Yann LeCun is the Co-Director of the Learning in Machines and Brain research program of CIFAR.
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Yann LeCun is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the French Academie des Sciences.
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Yann LeCun has received honorary doctorates from IPN in Mexico City in 2016, from EPFL in 2018 and from Universite Cote d'Azur in 2021.
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In 2017, Yann LeCun declined an invitation to lecture at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia because he believed he would be considered a terrorist in the country in view of his atheism.
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In 2018 Yann LeCun was awarded the IRI Medal, established by the Industrial Research Institute.
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In March 2019, Yann LeCun won the Turing award, sharing it with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.