COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Yann LeCun

1960 - Today

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Yann André LeCun ( lə-KUN, French: [ləkœ̃]; originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta. He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yann LeCun has received more than 1,629,111 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yann LeCun is the 95th most popular computer scientist (up from 107th in 2019), the 3,902nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,997th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yann LeCun ranks 95 out of 245. Before him are Ivar Jacobson, Mary Kenneth Keller, Manuel Blum, Abraham Lempel, Robin Milner, and Adam Osborne. After him are Liviu Librescu, John Draper, Karen Spärck Jones, Ed Roberts, Betty Holberton, and Jean Bartik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Yann LeCun ranks 185. Before him are Chris Waddle, Atom Egoyan, Maurizio Cattelan, Kelly LeBrock, Brenda Strong, and Gabriel Calderón. After him are Joshua Angrist, Elizabeth Perkins, Hong Sang-soo, Daniel Silva, Slavko Štimac, and Matt Sorum.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yann LeCun ranks 3,902 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston Defferre (1910), Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694), Jean Broc (1771), Gaucelm Faidit (1170), and Jean Stablinski (1932). After him are Denis Lavant (1961), Joseph Ducreux (1735), Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Marcel Moyse (1889), Abel Bonnard (1883), and Émile Allais (1912).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In France

Among computer scientists born in France, Yann LeCun ranks 4. Before him are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Pierre Bézier (1910), and Jacques Vallée (1939). After him are Bertrand Meyer (1950), and Yoshua Bengio (1964).

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