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    Yoshua Bengio

    Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero; Full Professor at Université de Montréal

    Full Professor of Computer Science, Université de Montréal · Co-President and Scientific Director, LawZero · Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila · Chair, International AI Safety Report

    Background

    Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist whose work includes artificial neural networks and deep learning.

    He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

    He is a full professor at Université de Montréal and co-president and scientific director of the nonprofit LawZero.

    Key facts

    Born
    March 5, 1964source
    Turing Award
    2018 A.M. Turing Awardsource
    Current posts
    Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZerosource
    LawZero
    Foundation of LawZero in 2025source
    International AI Safety Report
    Chair; full report published January 2025source

    WYDE coverage of Yoshua Bengio

    Sources

    Follow the money in philanthropy.

    Who gives, who receives, and what it funds. Every Friday.