Yann LeCun

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Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun (born July 8, 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency ) is a French computer scientist and recipient of the Turing Award 2018.

Life

LeCun received his diploma in electrical engineering in 1983 from the École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Électrotechnique et Électronique (ESIEE) and received his doctorate in computer science in 1987 from the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) ( Modeles connexionnistes de l'apprentissage ). In his dissertation, he used an early form of backpropagation for artificial neural networks . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Toronto with Geoffrey Hinton . From 1988 he was at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he became head of image processing research in 1996. After a short time at the NEC research laboratories in Princeton, he became a professor at New York University in 2003 , where he was founding director of the New York Center for Data Science . In 2013 he became director of AI research at Facebook . He also works part-time at New York University.

He dealt with text recognition (OCR and handwriting recognition, his system developed at ATT Labs was used by many banks), artificial neural networks, image processing and compression. He was responsible for the image compression behind DjVu , which was developed at ATT Labs in the 1990s. Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner were co-developers . Later he also dealt with machine learning , artificial intelligence , mobile robotics, algorithmic neuroscience.

He is considered the founder of the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which he also developed at Bell Labs.

In 2014 he received the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award and in 2015 he received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award at the International Conference on Computer Vision, in 2018 the IRI Medal and the Harold Pender Award . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering . In 2018 he received the Turing Award, and in 2019 LeCun gave the Morris Loeb Lecture .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to BNF
  2. ↑ Information on doctoral studies according to BNF.
  3. ↑ The Verge , March 27, 2019
  4. ↑ Stefan Betschon: Honor for the “Deep Learning Mafia”. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 4, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME LeCun, Yann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH near Paris