Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-president and... Wikipedia

• Born:  March 5, 1964, Paris, France
• Age:  61 years
• Citizenship:  Canada
• Fields:  Machine learning, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence
• Institutions:  Université de Montréal, MILA, Element AI
• Education:  McGill University (BS, MS, PhD)
• Thesis:  Artificial Neural Networks and their Application to Sequence Recognition (1991)
• Notable students:  Ian Goodfellow
• Known for:  Deep learning, Neural machine translation, Generative adversarial networks, Attention models, Word embeddings, Denoising autoencoders, Language models, Learning to learn, Generative flow networks
• Notable awards:  Marie-Victorin Prize (2017), Turing Award (2018), AAAI Fellow (2019), Legion of Honor (2022), VinFuture Prize (2024), Honorary Doctorate (2025)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo