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Yann Le Cun

French computer scientist · France · Academics · Born 1960 · age 66

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Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

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2025Queen Elizabeth Prize for EngineeringAward2023ACM FellowAward2022Honorary Doctor of the University Côte d'AzurAwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific ResearchAward2021Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2020AAAI FellowAwardKnight of the Legion of HonourAward2018Harold Pender AwardAwardHonorary Doctor of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneAwardTuring AwardAward2015PAMI Distinguished Researcher AwardAward1960Born8 July 1960

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Awards

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering2025
ACM Fellow2023
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research2022
Honorary Doctor of the University Côte d'Azur2022
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2021
AAAI Fellow2020
Knight of the Legion of Honour2020
Harold Pender Award2018
Turing Award2018
Honorary Doctor of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne2018
PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award2015
IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award

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Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.

Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
living
Dates
Born 1960 · age 66

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