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Yann LeCun

1960 - Today

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Yann André Le Cun ( lə-KUN, French: [ləkœ̃]; usually spelled LeCun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta. He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yann LeCun is the 60th most popular computer scientist (up from 95th in 2019), the 2,887th most popular biography from France (up from 3,902nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Computer Scientist. Learn more about Yann LeCun's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yann LeCun ranks 60 out of 245Before him are Leonard Kleinrock, Leslie Lamport, Alan Perlis, Pierre Bézier, James Gosling, and Amir Pnueli. After him are Brian Kernighan, J. C. R. Licklider, Vernor Vinge, Ron Rivest, Jean Bartik, and Ruth Teitelbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Yann LeCun ranks 124Before him are Michael Hutchence, Bob Casey Jr., Maurizio Cattelan, Takashi Miike, Axel Rudi Pell, and Abdullah Abdullah. After him are Julio César Romero, Benigno Aquino III, Angélique Kidjo, Tony Goldwyn, Werner Faymann, and Timothy Hutton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yann LeCun ranks 2,887 out of 6,770Before him are Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (1000), Guy de Rothschild (1909), Michael Baius (1513), John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen (1638), Henri Desgrange (1865), and Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448). After him are Marcel Prévost (1862), Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675), Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Favorinus (85), and Bernard Farcy (1949).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Yann LeCun ranks 3Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), and Pierre Bézier (1910). After him are Jacques Vallée (1939), Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).