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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 Turing Award winning 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 (CNN). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yann LeCun has received more than 1,301,291 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yann LeCun is the 107th most popular computer scientist (up from 140th in 2019), the 4,013th most popular biography from France (up from 4,062nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Computer Scientist.

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  • 19

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  • 4.18

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  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Yann LeCun ranks 107 out of 201. Before him are Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, Evan Williams, Peter Norton, Scott Fahlman, and Robert Fano. After him are Yukihiro Matsumoto, Kenneth E. Iverson, James H. Clark, Michael Stonebraker, Karen Spärck Jones, and Robin Milner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Yann LeCun ranks 215. Before him are Aguri Suzuki, Karch Kiraly, Igor Nikulin, Victor Pinchuk, Seth Godin, and Slavko Štimac. After him are Claude Joseph, Jenette Goldstein, Meg Tilly, Tomislav Ivković, Marcel Koller, and Peter F. Hamilton.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yann LeCun ranks 4,013 out of 6,011. Before him are Billy Mitchell (1879), Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (1874), Ernest Lavisse (1842), Michel Blanc (1952), Colette Marchand (1925), and Valérie Kaprisky (1962). After him are Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908), Rita Renoir (1934), Paul Louis Courier (1772), Théodore Monod (1902), Anthony Martial (1995), and Rachida Dati (1965).

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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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