Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist

About Me

Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université. After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in 2013. His interests include AI, machine learning, computer perception, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing", a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.

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Open Science

The Open Science movement stretches back to 17th-century Europe, when scientists began sharing resources with each other to keep up with the surging demand for scientific knowledge. Today, the alliance of Open Science with AI technologies promises to usher in a new era of research that is more collaborative, more transparent, and more democratic. How can we foster transparency, collaboration, and accessibility in scientific research while addressing concerns about privacy, competition, and the sustainability of academic practices?

Book signing session with Yann Le Cun

his book "Quand la Machine Apprend" (Odile Jacob) Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science.