Yann is Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research (FAIR), joining Facebook in December 2013. He is also a Silver Professor at New York University on a part time basis, mainly affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
He received the EE Diploma from Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique (ESIEE Paris), and a PhD in CS from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 1987. After a postdoc at the University of Toronto, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ in 1988. He became head of the Image Processing Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research in 1996, and joined NYU as a professor in 2003, after a brief period as a Fellow of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton. From 2012 to 2014 he was the founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science. Yann is the co-director of the CIFAR program on Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception Program with Yoshua Bengio.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, a fellow of AAAI, the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award, the 2015 IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Distinguished Researcher Award, the 2016 Lovie Award for Lifetime Achievement, the University of Pennsylvania Pender Award, and received honorary doctorates from IPN, Mexico and EPFL.
He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing."
His research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, with applications to computer vision, natural language understanding, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work in deep learning and the invention of the convolutional network method which is widely used for image, video and speech recognition.
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May 06, 2024
Gregoire Mialon, Yann LeCun, Thomas Scialom, Clémentine Fourrier, Thomas Wolf
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February 15, 2024
Adrien Bardes, Quentin Garrido, Xinlei Chen, Michael Rabbat, Yann LeCun, Mido Assran, Nicolas Ballas, Jean Ponce
February 15, 2024
October 05, 2023
Vivien Cabannes, Leon Bottou, Yann LeCun, Randall Balestriero
October 05, 2023
July 06, 2023
Gregoire Mialon, Roberto Dessì, Maria Lomeli, Christoforos Nalmpantis, Ram Pasunuru, Roberta Raileanu, Baptiste Rozière, Timo Schick, Jane Yu, Asli Celikyilmaz, Edouard Grave, Yann LeCun, Thomas Scialom
July 06, 2023
June 27, 2023
Quentin Garrido, Laurent Najman, Yann LeCun
June 27, 2023
June 26, 2023
Vivien Cabannes, Bobak Kiani, Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun, Alberto Bietti
June 26, 2023
June 18, 2023
Mido Assran, Quentin Duval, Ishan Misra, Piotr Bojanowski, Pascal Vincent, Mike Rabbat, Yann LeCun, Nicolas Ballas
June 18, 2023
February 28, 2023
Quentin Garrido, Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun, Yubei Chen, Laurent Najman
February 28, 2023
October 28, 2022
October 28, 2022
October 04, 2022
Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun, Jean Ponce
October 04, 2022
October 12, 2021
Baptiste Rozière, Camille Couprie, Jérémy Rapin, Morgane Rivière, Olivier Teytaud, Yann LeCun
October 12, 2021
October 22, 2020
October 22, 2020
July 01, 2020
Mark Tygert, Cinna Wu, Yann LeCun
July 01, 2020
May 15, 2019
Jake Zhao, Kaiming He, Yann LeCun, Bhuwan Dhingra, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William Cohen, Zhilin Yang
May 15, 2019
September 10, 2018
Pauline Luc, Camille Couprie, Yann LeCun, Jakob Verbeek
September 10, 2018
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