Yann Andr é LeCun (born July 8, 1960) is a French computer scientist primarily engaged in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is a Silver Professor at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences at New York University and also the Vice President and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Meta (Facebook).
He is known for his work in optical character recognition and computer vision using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and is the founder of Convolutional Networks. He is also one of the main creators of DjVu image compression technology (along with L é on Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co developed the Lush programming language with L é on Bottou.
LeCun, along with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the 2018 Turing Award (commonly known as the “Nobel Prize in Computer Science”) in recognition of their work in deep learning. These three are sometimes referred to as the “fathers of artificial intelligence” and “fathers of deep learning”.
Life Introduction
Yang Likun was born near Paris, France in 1960. He obtained an engineering degree from the É cole Polytechnique in Paris in 1983 and a PhD in computer science from the University of Paris VI in 1987. During his doctoral studies, he proposed a prototype of the backpropagation algorithm for learning neural networks. Subsequently, I completed my postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Geoffrey Hinton.
In 1988, Yang Likun joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department of Bell Labs located in Homestead Township, New Jersey, USA. The leader of the laboratory is Lawrence D. Jackel, who has developed many new machine learning methods, such as image recognition models called Convolutional Neural Networks, Optimal Brain Damage, and Graph Transformer Networks (similar to Conditional Random Fields), which he has applied to handwriting recognition and OCR.
The bank check recognition system he assisted in developing was widely used by NCR and other companies, which read over 10% of checks in the United States from the late 1990s to the early 21st century.
In 1996, he joined AT&T Lab and became the leader of the image processing research department, which is part of the voice and image processing research laboratory led by Lawrence Rabiner. His main work is DjVu image compression technology, which is used by the website led by the Internet Archive to publish scanned documents. His AT&T colleagues include L é on Bottou and Vladimir Vapnik.
In 2012, he became the founding director of the Data Science Center at New York University. On December 9, 2013, Yang Likun became the first director of the Facebook (now Meta) Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in New York, gradually stepping down from the leadership of NYU-CDS in early 2014.
You can access his personal website http://yann.lecun.com/
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