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#2ResearcherFoundation Models & LLMs
Yoshua Bengio
LawZero / Université de Montréal / Mila
Biography
Turing Award 2018. Co-president and scientific director of LawZero, the safe-by-design AI nonprofit he launched in 2025. Founder and scientific advisor of Mila. Pioneer of attention mechanisms and generative models.
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