Yann André LeCun is a Turing Award winning French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. Wikipedia
Born: 1960 (age 63 years), Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
Education: Sorbonne University Pierre and Marie Curie Campus (1983–1987) and Esiee Paris (1983)
Known for: Deep learning
Academic advisors: Geoffrey Hinton and Maurice Milgram
Awards: Turing Award (2018), AAAI Fellow (2019), and Legion of Honour (2023)
Affiliation: New York University
Research interests: AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and more