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Yoshua Bengio

Mila / Université de Montréal

Specialties

Deep LearningNLPAI Safety

Location

Canada

Education

PhD in Computer Science, McGill University (1991).

Biography

Turing Award 2018. Scientific Director of Mila. Pioneer of attention mechanisms and generative models. Major AI safety advocate.

Key Influence

Most-cited computer scientist alive. Pioneered attention mechanisms that led to transformers.

Awards & Recognition

2018 Turing Award, Officer of the Order of Canada, highest H-index in CS