Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist known for his work in artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal, and also the scientific director of the Montreal Learning Algorithm Institute (MILA).
Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, was awarded the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award in recognition of their work in deep learning. Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the “fathers of artificial intelligence” and “fathers of deep learning”.
Early and educational experiences
Bengio was born into a Jewish family in France, who immigrated from Morocco to France and then re immigrated to Canada. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, a Doctor of Medicine degree in Computer Science, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from McGill University.
Bengio is the brother of Samy Bengio, who was once a scientist at Google. The Bengio brothers lived in Morocco for a year during their father’s service there. His father Carlo Bengio was a pharmacist who created theatrical works and ran a Sephardic theater troupe in Montreal, which performed Jewish Arab works. His mother, C é lia Moreno, is also an artist who played a role in major Moroccan theatrical scenes operated by Tayeb Seddiki in the 1970s.
Life and Research Fields
After completing his PhD, Bengio worked as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT (supervised by Michael I. Jordan) and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Bengio has been a faculty member at the University of Montreal since 1993, head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), and co director of the Machine and Brain Learning Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Cade Metz believes that Bengio, along with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, was one of the three most significant contributors to the development of deep learning in the 1990s and early 21st century. According to MILA data, Bengio is the most cited computer scientist among those with an h-index of at least 100 per day.
In October 2016, Bengio co founded Element AI, a Montreal based artificial intelligence incubator that transforms AI research into real-world commercial applications. Due to the failure to develop a marketable product and the loss of several partners, the company ran out of funds and options by 2020 and announced in November that it would be sold to US software company ServiceNow. This sale will mainly export intellectual property funded by Canadian taxpayers to the United States, which goes against Bengio’s desire for Element AI to become a Canadian company to compete with world tech giants.
In May 2017, Bengio announced his joining Botler AI, a Montreal based legal technology startup, as a strategic advisor.
Bengio currently serves as the scientific and technical advisor for Recursion Pharmaceuticals and the scientific advisor for Valence Discovery.
Awards and Honors
A. M. Turing Award (2018)
Kiram Natural Science Award (2018)
Member of the Royal Society of London (2020)
Member of the Royal Society of Canada (2017)
Knight of the French Legion of Honor (2022)
Member of the Order of Canada (2017)
IEEE CIS Neural Network Pioneer Award (2019)
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