# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshua-bengio
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:38.438Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshua-bengio"
name: "Yoshua Bengio"
slug: "yoshua-bengio"
description: "Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero. He founded Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, and was its scientific director until 2025."
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birthDate: "1964-03-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump