A Canadian computer scientist renowned for his works on artificial neural networks and deep learning.
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, born in ParisParis, France, 5 March 1964. He grew up in France and in Quebec, Canada. He received his Bachelor degree in Engineering in 1986, Master of Science in Computer Science in 1988 and PhD in Computer Science in 1991 from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a post-doctoral fellow at M.I.T. Brain and Cognitive Sciences with Michael I. Jordan and AT&T Bell Labs with the group of Vladimir Vapnik, Larry Jackel, and Yann LeCun.