Biography
Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC (born March 5, 1964 [ 3 ] ) is a Canadian computer scientist , and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero. He founded Mila , the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, and was its scientific director until 2025. 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. [ 7 ] Bengio, Hinton , and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Bengio is the most-cited computer scientist globally (by both total citations and by h -index ), [ 14 ] and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations). [ 15 ] In November 2025, Bengio became the first AI researcher with more than a million Google Scholar citations. In 2024, TIME Magazine included Bengio in its yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people. [ 16 ] Bengio was born in France to a Jewish family who had emigrated to France from Morocco. The family then relocated to Canada. [ 17 ] He received his Bachelor of Science degree (electrical engineering), MSc (computer science) and PhD (computer science) from McGill University . [ 2 ] [ 18 ] Fields: Machine learning, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence, [ Education: McGill University BS MS PhD Award Citation: Marie-Victorin Prize (2017) Turing Award (2018) AAAI Fellow (2019) Legion of Honor (2022) VinFuture Prize (2024) Honorary Doctorate (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)