Yann Le Cun

VP and Chief AI Scientist

About Me

Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and the Jacob T. Schwartz 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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[REC] Interview VivaTech 2025 – Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist chez Meta

Rejoignez-nous pour revoir l'interview « S’adapter à l’inconnu », avec Yann LeCun, VP & Directeur scientifique IA chez Meta avec Melissa Heikkilä, journaliste spécialisée en IA au Financial Times.

[REC] Interview VivaTech 2025 – Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist chez Meta

Adapting for the Unknown

[RECORDING] Keynote Address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Join us to watch the recording of 'Adapting for the Unknown', a keynote address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and Melissa Heikkilä, AI Correspondent at Financial Times.

[RECORDING] Keynote Address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Join us to watch the recording of 'Adapting for the Unknown', a keynote address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and Melissa Heikkilä, AI Correspondent at Financial Times.

[LIVESTREAM] Keynote Address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Join us to watch the "Adapting for the Unknown" keynote address by Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Melissa Heikkilä AI Correspondent at Financial Times, live from Dôme de Paris' stage.