Yoshua Bengio
Canadian deep-learning pioneer; 2018 Turing Award; founded Mila, leads LawZero.
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- Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer of deep learning.
- He shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
- He founded Mila and was its scientific director until 2025.
- In June 2025 he launched LawZero, a nonprofit building AI guardrails, where he is co-president and scientific director.
- He chairs the International AI Safety Report.
Key facts
- Born
- 5 March 1964, France1
- Award
- ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2018, with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun1
- Université de Montréal
- Faculty member from 19931
- Mila
- Founder; scientific director until 20251
- LawZero
- Launched June 2025; co-president and scientific director1
- Policy
- Chair, International AI Safety Report (published January 2025); UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, appointed February 20261
- Education
- B.Eng., M.Sc. and Ph.D., McGill University1
Roles
Founded
- MilaOrganization
founded it in 1993; scientific director until 2025 source on Mila
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