Yoshua Bengio
The Academic Conscience
Deep learning theory, Theano, and the turn to safety
Rating
96Impact score
Domains
Deep learningRepresentation learningAI safety
Scouting report
Third of the 2018 Turing Award trio, and the one who stayed in the university. Founded MILA, whose lab produced Theano — the framework a generation of researchers learned on before TensorFlow and PyTorch existed. Co-authored the Deep Learning textbook, and now chairs international scientific reporting on AI risk.
Curator’s note
Kept the research public when the money was arguing for the opposite.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Yoshua Bengio by Maryse Boyce, licensed CC BY 4.0.
Sources
- 01Yoshua Bengio en.wikipedia.org
- 02Mila — Quebec AI Institute mila.quebec