Yoshua Bengio

Bengio is one of those rare figures who built a revolution and then turned around to question it. Sharing the 2018 Turing Award for deep learning would be legacy enough, but what holds my attention is his later pivot toward AI safety and governance. There's an unusual moral seriousness in a pioneer warning about the dangers of his own field rather than just riding the hype. Born in Paris, shaped by McGill and Montreal, he embodies a quieter, more reflective kind of brilliance. I respect researchers who keep their conscience as sharp as their math, and he clearly does.

Name (English)

Yoshua Bengio

Name (Japanese)

ヨシュア・ベンジオ

Reading

よしゅあ・べんじお

Born

March 5, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

artificial intelligence researcher / professor / computer scientist / information scientist

University

McGill University

Awards & achievements

• 2009 Acfas Urgel-Archambeault Award
• 2017 Officer of the Order of Canada
• 2017 Prix Marie-Victorin
• 2018 Turing Award
• 2017 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• 2020 AAAI Fellow
• 2022 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society

• Official sitehttps://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/yoshua_en/index.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshua%20Bengio
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3572699

Tags

• artificial intelligence researcher
• professor
• computer scientist

Last updated

2026-06-17

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