1. 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.
16 Facts About Yann LeCun
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Yann LeCun is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks.
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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 on 8 July 1960, at Soisy-sous-Montmorency in the suburbs of Paris.
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Yann LeCun received a Diplome d'Ingenieur from the ESIEE Paris in 1983 and a Ph.
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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 scientific advisor to French research group Kyutai which is being funded by Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saade, Eric Schmidt, and others.
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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, from Universite Cote d'Azur in 2021, from Universita di Siena in 2023, and from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023.
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In 2018, Yann LeCun was awarded the IRI Medal, established by the Industrial Research Institute, and the Harold Pender Award, given by the University of Pennsylvania,.
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In March 2019, Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award, sharing it with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.