About Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist and one of the founding fathers of deep learning, alongside Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. He currently serves as the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (formerly Facebook) and is a Silver Professor at New York University (NYU). LeCun is best known for his work on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are foundational to modern computer vision and AI applications. He was awarded the 2018 Turing Award for his pioneering work in deep learning.
Education
PhD
PhD - Computer Science
Engineering Diploma
Engineering Diploma - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Work Experience
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
VP & Chief AI Scientist
Scientific and technical leadership at Facebook AI Research, AI R&D strategy. VP & Chief AI Scientist
Director of AI Research
Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), with research locations in Menlo Park, New York City, and Paris, focused on bringing about major advances in AI.
Professor at NYU on a part-time basis (since January 2014).
Cofounder and advisor of Elements Inc. (biometrics), and Museami (music technology) Director of AI Research
Professor
Silver Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (since 2006)
Professor of Neural Science, NYU Center for Neural Science (since 2007)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU School of Engineering (since 2011)
Professor of Data Science, NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013)
Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013)
Research and teaching in machine learning, AI, data science, computer vision, robotics, computational neuroscience, and knowledge extraction from data,
Co-founder, Advisor
Elements develops software-based biometric authentication technology.

Cofounder and Chief Scientist
Development of innovative software and hardware technology for, music production, music education, and musical entertainment. Products includes mobile apps such as Improvox, Hook'd and MusicPal.

Owner
Research, Development, and Technology Consulting in software, machine learning, machine vision, robotics, data mining, data modeling, statistical data analysis, OCR, data compression, music technology and related topics .
Fellow
Research in machine learning and computer vision.
Department Head
Head of the Image Processing Research Department.
Directed research in machine learning, pattern recognition, image compression, video compression, animated characters. Department members included Yoshua Bengio, Leon Bottou, Eric Cosatto, Hans-Peter Graf, Patrick Haffner, Fu Jie Huang, Jörn Ostermann, Patrice Simard, Vladimir Vapnik,
research staff member
Carried out research in machine learning, neural nets, optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, signature verification, integrated circuits for pattern recogntiion, and other topics. research staff member
Research Staff Member
Research Staff Member
Research staff member
Research staff member

research scientist
research scientist
Research Associate (postdoc)
postdoc in the Geoff Hinton's lab in the Department of Computer Science.
Key Highlights
Chief AI Scientist at Meta
Silver Professor of Computer Science at NYU
ACM Turing Award Laureate
Pioneer of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
Professional Profile
Yann LeCun is a foundational figure in Artificial Intelligence, renowned for his work on deep learning and convolutional neural networks. He holds dual roles as Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Silver Professor at NYU, driving both industrial and academic research in the field.
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neural Networks
Research Management
Scientific Advising
Technology Consulting
R&D Strategy
Robotics
Data Science
Computational Neuroscience
Image Processing
Pattern Recognition
Social Media Presence
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Recent Posts
Crested Guan. Scientific name: penelope purpurascens. #costarica
Selfies and pictures around my keynote at AAAI yesterday.
From Nikkei Shimbun: “Leveraging Open Generative AI, Japanese Startups Introduce New Services in a Month Domestic startups are rapidly developing high-performance generative AI (artificial intelligen
Achievement unlocked: A 100-meter portrait of me was displayed on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai tonight. I'm in Dubai for the World Government Summit.
- NYC when I left: rain. - Paris when I left: rain. - Dubai when I arrived: two solid days of rain and thunderstorms. - local guy: restaurants, government buildings, and some roads are shut down. - m
