Yann LeCun

Former Chief AI Scientist at Meta (departed November 2025; now CEO of AMI Labs). 2018 Turing Award (with Bengio and Hinton) for deep learning. Silver Professor at NYU. Invented convolutional neural networks (LeNet) and backpropagation for CNNs. Built and led FAIR (2013–2025) into one of the world’s premier AI research labs. ~250,000 citations.