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Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio, October 27, 2016
Born1964 (age 59–60)
France
CitizenshipCanada
Alma materMcGill University
Known forDeep Learning, Neural machine translation, Generative Adversarial Networks, Word embeddings,Denoising Auto-Encoders, neural language models, Curriculum Learning, Learning to learn
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversité de Montréal
ThesisArtificial Neural Networks and their Application to Sequence Recognition (1991)
Doctoral advisorRenato de Mori
Notable studentsIan Goodfellow, Hugo Larochelle, Pascal Vincent, Nicolas Chapados, Kyunghyun Cho, Antoine Bordes, Aaron Courville, Samy Bengio, Narjes Boufaden
Websiteiro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy

Yoshua Bengio (born 1964 in France) is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.[1][2][3]

Bengio received his Bachelor of Engineering (electrical engineering), Master of Science (computer science) and PhD (computer science) from McGill University.[4] He was a post-doctoral fellow at MIT (under Michael I. Jordan) and AT&T Bell Labs.[5] Bengio has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 1993, heads the MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) and is co-director of the Learning in Machines & Brains project of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.[4][5]

Yoshua Bengio being interviewed for the Dutch television series The Mind of the Universe.

Awards

In 2017, Bengio was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.[6] The same year he was nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada [7] and he received the Marie-Victorin Quebec Prize[8]

References

  1. ^ Knight, Will (July 9, 2015). "IBM Pushes Deep Learning with a Watson Upgrade". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ^ LeCun, Yann; Bengio, Yoshua; Hinton, Geoffrey (2015). "Deep learning". Nature. 521 (7553): 436–444. doi:10.1038/nature14539. PMID 26017442.
  3. ^ Bergen, Mark; Wagner, Kurt (July 15, 2015). "Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'Canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze". Recode. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  4. ^ a b "Yoshua Bengio". Profiles. Canadian Institute For Advanced Research. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Bengio, Yoshua. "CV". Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle. Université de Montréal. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  6. ^ "Order of Canada honorees desire a better country". The Globe and Mail. June 30, 2017.
  7. ^ "Royal Society of Canada". December 16, 2017.
  8. ^ "Prix du Quebec". December 16, 2017.
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