Yoshua Bengio is a Professor at the University of Montreal, and the Scientific Director of both Mila (Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute) and IVADO (the Institute for Data Valorization). He is Co-director (with Yann LeCun) of CIFAR’s Learning in Machines and Brains program. Bengio received a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a Master’s degree in computer science and a Doctoral degree in computer science from McGill University.
Bengio’s honors include being named an Officer of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Marie-Victorin Prize. His work in founding and serving as Scientific Director of the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (Mila) is also recognized as a major contribution to the field. Mila, an independent nonprofit organization, now counts 300 researchers and 35 faculty members among its ranks. It is the largest academic center for deep learning research in the world, and has helped put Montreal on the map as a vibrant AI ecosystem, with research labs from major companies as well as AI startups.
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun shared this year’s Turing Award, the world’s top prize in computer science, for their breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence.