Yann LeCun

Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at New York University's Courant Institute. He is the Executive Chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), a company he co-founded in December 2025 after serving as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms from 2013 to 2025. He is best known for his foundational work in deep learning, for which he shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Cellular Intelligence.