Yann Le Cun

Yann LeCun fascinates me because he is the patient kind of genius. Long before deep learning became fashionable, this Parisian was quietly refining convolutional neural networks while much of the field had moved on. His Turing Award and a wall of fellowships confirm what insiders knew for decades, yet what I respect is the stubborn conviction that kept him going when the idea was unpopular. He helped light the fire that the whole world is now warming itself by. I also appreciate that he stays clear-eyed and willing to argue against hype, which is exactly the temperament a foundational researcher should have.

Name (English)

Yann Le Cun

Name (Japanese)

ヤン・ルカン

Reading

やん・るかん

Born

July 8, 1960 (age 66)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

software engineer / electrical engineer / artificial intelligence researcher / professor / computer scientist

University

Pierre and Marie Curie University

Awards & achievements

• 2015 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award
• 2018 Harold Pender Award
• 2018 Turing Award
• 2018 honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• 2020 AAAI Fellow
• 2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
• 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research

• Official sitehttp://yann.lecun.com
• Xhttps://x.com/ylecun
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann%20LeCun
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3571662

Tags

• software engineer
• electrical engineer
• artificial intelligence researcher

Last updated

2026-06-17

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