# Yann LeCun: chief scientist, Meta Platforms

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Turing Award-winning French-American computer scientist, inventor of convolutional neural networks, and Chief AI Scientist at [Meta](/companies/meta-platforms). Founded FAIR (Meta AI) in 2013. Received the 2018 ACM Turing Award jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for breakthroughs in deep neural networks. Professor at NYU and founding director of the NYU Center for Data Science.

- **Nationality:** French-American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (2)

- [Meta Platforms](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/meta-platforms.md) Chief AI Scientist
- [Meta FAIR](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/meta-fair.md) Chief AI Scientist

## Sources (3)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
2. https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lecun_6017366.cfm
3. https://carnegie.org/article/great-immigrant-yann-lecun/


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