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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist at Meta; Professor at NYU
Year of Birth  1960
Nationality  France/USA

Important milestone

Publishes LeNet

1998 – Released one of the first CNNs for digit recognition.

Turing Award

2018 – Honored with Bengio & Hinton.

Leads Meta AI

2019–present – Innovates in self-supervised architectures.

Personal Profile

Co-creator of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award. He leads research at Meta in representation learning and self-supervised models.

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