Yoshua Bengio is a world-leading expert in artificial intelligence whose pioneering work on deep learning earned him and his colleagues Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun the A.M. Turing Award in 2018. The Turing is considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that exploits artificial neural networks to create new generations of algorithms that can help computers learn by themselves. In deep learning, information is processed through a sequence of operations modelled on the way the brain works, in which multiple neural layers form a deep network.
Today, neural networks are driving advances in fields ranging from natural language processing and machine translation to protein structure modeling, voice and facial recognition, robotics, self-driving vehicles, medical image analysis, drug discovery, weather simulation, and even managing power outages and vehicular traffic.
Yoshua Bengio has been instrumental in making Montreal a hub of AI research. He is the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, and the scientific director of IVADO, the Institute for Data Development. Around these two flagship AI institutions, a scientific ecosystem of more than 1,000 researchers has grown in the vicinity of the MIL campus in recent years.
Concerned about the social impact of his work and that of his colleagues, Yoshua Bengio actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and co-directed the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Working Group on Responsible AI.
