Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is an artificial intelligence and machine learning pioneer. He is a full professor at Université de Montréal. He is also the founder and scientific director at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, and making him the computer scientist with the largest number of citations and h-index.

Bengio is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

He received numerous awards, including the prestigious Killam Prize and Herzberg Gold medal in Canada, CIFAR’s AI Chair, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award, the VinFuture Prize and he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology. Bengio was also named in 2024 as one of TIME’s magazine 100 Most Influential People in the world.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and currently chairs the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.