Yann LeCun
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Born | Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France | 8 July 1960
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Known for | Deep learning |
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Thesis | Modèles connexionnistes de l'apprentissage (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Maurice Milgram |
Website | yann |
Yann André LeCun
He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN).[5][6] He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.
LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award, together with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on deep learning.[7] The three are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning".[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Early life
LeCun was born at Soisy-sous-Montmorency in the suburbs of Paris. His name was originally spelled Le Cun from the old Breton form Le Cunff and was from the region of Guingamp in northern Brittany. "Yann" is the Breton form for "John".[2]
Education
He received a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the
Career
Bell Labs
In 1988, he joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at
In 1996, he joined AT&T Labs-Research as head of the Image Processing Research Department, which was part of Lawrence Rabiner's Speech and Image Processing Research Lab, and worked primarily on the DjVu image compression technology,[18] used by many websites, notably the Internet Archive, to distribute scanned documents.[citation needed] His collaborators at AT&T include Léon Bottou and Vladimir Vapnik.
New York University
After a brief tenure as a Fellow of the NEC Research Institute (now
In 2012, he became the founding director of the
In 2013, he and
In 2016, he was the visiting professor of computer science on the "Chaire Annuelle Informatique et Sciences Numériques" at Collège de France in Paris, where he presented the "leçon inaugurale" (inaugural lecture).[29] In 2023, he was named as the inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute.[30]
Honours and awards
LeCun is a member of the US
He has received honorary doctorates from
and from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2023.In 2014, he received the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award and in 2015, the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.[37]
In 2018 LeCun was awarded the IRI Medal, established by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI).[38]
In 2018, he received the Harold Pender Award given by the University of Pennsylvania.[39]
In 2019, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[40]
In 2022, he received the Princess of Asturias Award in the category "Scientific Research", along with Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis.[41]
In 2023, the President of France made him a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Legion of Honour.[42]
During the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024 in Davos, he received the Global Swiss AI Award 2023.[43]
Turing Award
In 2018, LeCun won the Turing award, sharing it with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton.[44]
References
- ^ "Version électronique authentifiée publiée au JO n° 0001 du 01/01/2020 | Legifrance". www.legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Fun Stuff". yann.lecun.com. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ "Artificial-intelligence pioneers win $1 million Turing Award". The Washington Post.
- ^ Metz, Cade (27 March 2019). "Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Convolutional Nets and CIFAR-10: An Interview with Yann LeCun". No Free Hunch. 22 December 2014.
- S2CID 14542261.
- ^ "Fathers of the Deep Learning Revolution Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award". Association for Computing Machinery. New York. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ Vincent, James (27 March 2019). "'Godfathers of AI' honored with Turing Award, the Nobel Prize of computing". The Verge. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ Ranosa, Ted (29 March 2019). "Godfathers Of AI Win This Year's Turing Award And $1 Million". Tech Times. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ Reporters, Telegraph (27 March 2019). "Nobel prize of tech awarded to 'godfathers of AI'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ Shead, Sam. "The 3 'Godfathers' Of AI Have Won The Prestigious $1M Turing Prize". Forbes. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ Ray, Tiernan. "Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun say the field can fix its flaws". ZDNet. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
- ^ Kahn, Jeremy (27 March 2019). "Three 'Godfathers of Deep Learning' Selected for Turing Award". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Y. LeCun: Une procédure d'apprentissage pour réseau a seuil asymmetrique (a Learning Scheme for Asymmetric Threshold Networks), Proceedings of Cognitiva 85, 599–604, Paris, France, 1985.
- ^ Y. LeCun, B. Boser, J. S. Denker, D. Henderson, R. E. Howard, W. Hubbard and L. D. Jackel: Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition, Neural Computation, 1(4):541–551, Winter 1989.
- Morgan Kaufmann, Denver, CO, 1990.
- ^ Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio and Patrick Haffner: Gradient Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition, Proceedings of IEEE, 86(11):2278–2324, 1998.
- ^ Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Paul G. Howard, Patrice Simard, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun: High Quality Document Image Compression with DjVu, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 7(3):410–425, 1998.
- ^ "People – Electrical and Computer Engineering". Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ^ "Yann LeCun's Home Page".
- ^ Yann LeCun, Sumit Chopra, Raia Hadsell, Ranzato Marc'Aurelio and Fu-Jie Huang: A Tutorial on Energy-Based Learning, in Bakir, G. and Hofman, T. and Schölkopf, B. and Smola, A. and Taskar, B. (Eds), Predicting Structured Data, MIT Press, 2006.
- ^ Kevin Jarrett, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato and Yann LeCun: What is the Best Multi-Stage Architecture for Object Recognition?, Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'09), IEEE, 2009
- ^ Raia Hadsell, Pierre Sermanet, Marco Scoffier, Ayse Erkan, Koray Kavackuoglu, Urs Muller and Yann LeCun: Learning Long-Range Vision for Autonomous Off-Road Driving, Journal of Field Robotics, 26(2):120–144, February 2009.
- ^ "Center for Data Science – New York University".
- ^ "Yann LeCun" – via Facebook.
- ^ "DIRECTOR OF AI RESEARCH". 2016. Archived from the original on 27 April 2017 – via Facebook.
- ^ http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/gss2012/ Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
- ^ "Neural Computation & Adaptive Perception Advisory Committee Yann LeCun". CIFAR. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ "L'apprentissage profond : une révolution en intelligence artificielle". college-de-france.fr. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ "Yann LeCun Announced as Inaugural Jacob T. Schwartz Chair". CIMS. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ "News from the National Academy of Sciences". 26 April 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: … LeCun, Yann; vice president and chief artificial intelligence scientist, Facebook; and Silver Professor of Computer Science, Data Science, Neural Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University, New York City
, entry in member directory:"Member Directory". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2021. - ^ "Primera generación de Doctorados Honoris Causa en el IPN". Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ Aubort, Sarah (10 August 2018). "EPFL celebrates 1,043 new Master's graduates". Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ "Yann LeCun @EPFL – "Self-supervised learning: could machines learn like humans?"". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2019 – via YouTube.
- ^ "YANN LECUN, DOCTEUR HONORIS CAUSA D'UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR".
- ^ "YANN LECUN, LAUREA AD HONOREM DALL'UNIVERSITÀ DI SIENA".
- ^ "PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award". IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ IRI Medal 2018
- ^ "2018 Harold Pender Award and Lecture: Yann LeCun". Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ Princess of Asturias Awards 2022
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-lecun_today-i-was-made-a-chevalier-de-la-l%C3%A9gion-activity-7138326352776056832-GQFp
- ^ Yann LeCun wins the Global Swiss AI Award 2023. zhaw.ch, 18 January 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
External links
- Yann LeCun's personal website
- Yann LeCun's lab website at NYU
- Yann LeCun's website at Collège de France
- Yann LeCun's List of PhD Students
- Yann LeCun's publications
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- DjVuLibre website
- Lush website
- AMA: Yann LeCun (self.MachineLearning) www.reddit.com Ask Me Anything : Yann LeCun
- IEEE Spectrum article
- Technology Review article