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PMWC PIONEER AWARD
2018 Turing Award Laureate & Pioneer of convolutional neural networks and modern deep learning
Ph.D., Executive Chairman / Professor, AMI Labs / NYU
Biography
Yann LeCun is the Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute - School of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Data Science. He was the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (2018-2025), the founding Director of Meta-FAIR (2013-2017), and of the NYU Center for Data Science (2011-2014). He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université (1987). After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in 2013. His interests include AI, machine learning, computer perception, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing", a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.
Talk
World Models: Enabling the Next AI Revolution
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Davos of Precision Medicine
PMWC 2027 Program
January 27–29, 2027 · Santa Clara Convention Center
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