Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio | |
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Yoshua Bengio in 2019 | |
| Born | March 5, 1964 Paris, France |
| Citizenship | Canada, France |
| Education | McGill University (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Known for | |
| Relatives | Samy Bengio (brother) |
| Awards | Marie-Victorin Prize (2017) Turing Award (2018) AAAI Fellow (2019) Legion of Honor (2022) VinFuture Prize (2024) Honorary Doctorate (2025) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning Deep learning Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | Université de Montréal MILA Element AI |
| Thesis | Artificial Neural Networks and their Application to Sequence Recognition (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Renato De Mori |
| Notable students | Ian Goodfellow |
| Website | yoshuabengio |
Yoshua Bengio OC FRS FRSC (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian-French computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the AI institute MILA.
Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning. Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI". Bengio is the most-cited computer scientist globally (by both total citations and by h-index), and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations). In 2024, TIME Magazine included Bengio in its yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people.