Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montreal, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero, as well as the Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila. He also holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Considered one of the world’s leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, he is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, considered to be the “Nobel Prize of computing.” He is the most cited computer scientist worldwide, and the most cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations).

Professor Bengio is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Knight of the Legion of Honour of France, the Co-Chair of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, and Chair of the International AI Safety Report.

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  • Organization
    Université de Montréal; Mila; LawZero
  • Profession
    Professor; Founder and Scientific Advisor; Co-President
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