Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a professor of computer science at Université de Montreal, founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Considered one of the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence and deep learning, and the most cited scientist in the field, Bengio is the recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computer science.

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