Research leaders
Yann LeCun
Turing laureate; convolutional networks; longtime Meta chief AI scientist.
b. 1960🇺🇸United StatesChief AI Scientist, Meta AIProfessor, New York University
Invented convolutional neural networks and made them work on real problems in the late 1980s. Shares the 2018 Turing Award with Hinton and Bengio, and is the field's most prominent sceptic of LLM-only paths to intelligence.
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Convolutional neural networksTuring Award 2018LeNet, MNIST
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- 2013–now13 yrsMeta AIChief AI Scientist
- 2003–now23 yrsNew York UniversityProfessor
- 1988–19968 yrsAT&T Bell LabsResearcher
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