Biography
Yann André Le Cun [ 2 ] ( / l ə ˈ k ʌ n / lə- KUN ; .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%} French: [ləkœ̃] ; [ 3 ] usually spelled LeCun ; [ 3 ] born 8 July 1960) is a French–American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer vision , robotics and image compression . [ 1 ] [ 4 ] He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University . He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before leaving to work on his own startup company . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). [ 4 ] [ 8 ] He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology, alongside Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner. He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou. In 2018, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio , and Geoffrey Hinton received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for their work on deep learning . [ 9 ] The four (including Jürgen Schmidhuber ) are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Education: ESIEE Paris DipIng Pierre and Marie Curie University PhD Award Citation: Turing Award (2018) AAAI Fellow (2019) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2021) Legion of Honour (2023) VinFuture Prize (2024) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)