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Yoshua Bengio
Advancing deep learning and neural language models.
Neural language model · Deep Learning
- Born
- 5 March 1964
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
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Yoshua Bengio
Canadian computer scientist whose research helped make multilayer neural networks a central approach to artificial intelligence.
Early life
Move to Canada
Born in Paris to parents from Morocco and grew up in Canada.
McGill training
Completed undergraduate and graduate study at McGill University.
Career
- 1990s
Academic research
Joined the Université de Montréal after postdoctoral work in the United States.
- 2000s–2010s
Deep learning
Developed influential methods and helped build Montreal’s AI research community.
- 2020s
AI safety
Expanded his work into risks, governance and safer artificial-intelligence systems.
Contributions
Neural language model
Co-authored a model learning distributed representations of words.
Deep Learning
Co-authored a widely used textbook with Ian Goodfellow and Aaron Courville.
Turing Award
Shared computing’s leading award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
Beyond work
Research community
Founded Mila and supported collaborative academic AI research.
Public discussion
Has advocated stronger safeguards around advanced AI development.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and references ↗Biography and contributions ↗Photo: Xuthoria. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
