Yann LeCun
About
Yann LeCun is the Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute - School of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Data Science. He was the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (2018-2025), the founding Director of Meta-FAIR (2013-2017), and of the NYU Center for Data Science (2011-2014). He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université (1987). 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.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Une procédure d'apprentissage pour réseau à seuil asymétrique (A learning scheme for asymmetric threshold networks)
Year: 1985
Citations: 681
Venue: Proceedings of Cognitiva 85
Latest Recorded Paper
Deep Learning Architectures for Predictive Financial Market Modeling
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: N/A
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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