# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yann-lecun
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:54.891Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yann-lecun"
name: "Yann LeCun"
slug: "yann-lecun"
description: "He taught machines to see. His convolutional neural networks gave computers the ability to recognize handwriting, faces, objects — the architecture that made image recognition work and became the backbone of modern computer vision."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in France on 8 July 1960, Yann LeCun built his career at the intersection of pattern recognition and neural computation. His early work on optical character recognition using convolutional neural networks laid the groundwork for how machines process visual information, and he co-created the DjVu image compression technology alongside Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner. He became the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute and spent years as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025. In 2018, he shared the Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton for their collective work on deep learning — the trio sometimes called the "Godfathers of AI." The networks he designed decades ago now power the visual systems behind much of what we call artificial intelligence.