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Yoshua Bengio

1964 - Today

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Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero. He founded Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, and was its scientific director until 2025. Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing", together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Yoshua Bengio is the 164th most popular computer scientist (up from 177th in 2024), the 4,994th most popular biography from France (up from 5,189th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yoshua Bengio ranks 164 out of 245. Before him are Annie Easley, Kathleen Booth, Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, Silvio Micali, Henriette Avram, and Liu Gang. After him are James H. Clark, Leslie Valiant, Brewster Kahle, Audrey Tang, Noga Alon, and Edward F. Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Yoshua Bengio ranks 380. Before him are Takashi Yamazaki, P. T. Usha, Dino Dvornik, Sabu, Cedric the Entertainer, and Craig Bierko. After him are Sylvie Goulard, Pernell Whitaker, Herbert Fandel, Laura Poitras, Dieter Eilts, and Pavel Ploc.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yoshua Bengio ranks 4,994 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Flacher (1903), Michel Vermeulin (1934), Georges Lacombe (1902), René Ferrier (1936), Thierry Meyssan (1957), and Patrick Rambaud (1946). After him are Anthony Martial (1995), Célestin Delmer (1907), Renaud Lavillenie (1986), Laurent Mekies (1977), Sylvie Goulard (1964), and Élodie Bouchez (1973).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Yoshua Bengio ranks 6. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Pierre Bézier (1910), Yann LeCun (1960), Jacques Vallée (1939), and Bertrand Meyer (1950). After him are Fabrice Bellard (1972).

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