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Dr. Yann LeCun

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Center for Data Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States

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Research biography & scholarly focus

Turing Award laureate and Chief AI Scientist at Meta; pioneer of convolutional neural networks, self-supervised learning, and modern deep learning architectures.

Primary Subject Domain: COMPUTER-SCIENCE
Department / Faculty: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Center for Data Science
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