Yoshua Bengio — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational work on deep learning.
Serves as Full Professor at the Université de Montréal since 1993.
President and Scientific Director of LawZero since 2025.
Founded Mila, the Quebec AI Institute, and was its scientific director until 2025.
Pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning.
Introduced the neural probabilistic language model, which learned distributed representations for words.
Holds a PhD in Computer Science from McGill University.

Biography

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a Full Professor at the Université de Montréal and, since 2025, serves as President and Scientific Director of LawZero. Bengio is a recipient of the 2018 ACM A.

M. Turing Award, shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their work in deep learning.