Yann LeCun

Silver Professor, Courant/CDS; Turing Award laureate — NYU

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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.

Affiliations

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    NYU — Silver Professor, Courant/CDS; Turing Award laureate
    Formerly: Chief AI Scientist, Meta (until 2025); Co-Founder, AMI Labs (2026)
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    Meta — Former Chief AI Scientist (departed Nov 2025; now CEO of AMI Labs)
    Formerly: NYU (Silver Professor); 2018 Turing Award

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