Yann Le Cun

Yann Le Cun

French computer scientist (born 1960)

Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.

Also known as...LeCun, YL Cun, Yann L. Cun, Y. LeCun, Y LeCun, Yann André LeCun, Yann André Le Cun, Y. Le Cun, and Yann A. LeCun
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