Yoshua Bengio
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1964-03-05 ) March 5, 1964 (age 62) , Paris , France
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Education
- McGill University ( BS , MS , PhD )
- Known for
- Deep learning Neural machine translation Generative adversarial networks Attention models Word embeddings Denoising autoencoders Language models Learning to learn Generative flow networks
- Relatives
- Samy Bengio (brother)
- Awards
- Marie-Victorin Prize (2017), Turing Award (2018), AAAI Fellow (2019), Legion of Honor (2022), VinFuture Prize (2024) , Honorary Doctorate (2025)
- Fields
- Machine learning , Deep learning , Artificial intelligence
- Institutions
- Université de Montréal , MILA , Element AI
- Thesis
- Artificial Neural Networks and their Application to Sequence Recognition (1991)
- Doctoral advisor
- Renato De Mori
- Notable students
- Ian Goodfellow
- Website
- yoshuabengio .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Sibling
- Samy Bengio
- Occupation
- information scientist
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Université de Montréal
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- informatics
- Official website
- yoshuabengio.org
- Image
- Yoshua Bengio 2019 cropped.jpg
- Residence
- Montreal
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- date of birth
- 1964-03-05
- Commons category
- Yoshua Bengio
- different from
- Samy Bengio
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- student
- Ian J. Goodfellow
- interested in
- computer science
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Encyclopedic overview
Yoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC (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. Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI". Bengio is the most-cited computer scientist globally (by both total citations and by h-index), and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations). In November 2025, Bengio became the first AI researcher with more than a million Google Scholar citations. In 2024, Time magazine included Bengio in its yearly list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yoshua Bengio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.