Yann LeCun

French-American computer scientist, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and co-recipient of the Turing Award (2018) with Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who invented convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and advocates for open-source AI.

Invented convolutional neural networks — which process images by applying learned filters in a translation-invariant way — and applied them to handwritten digit recognition at AT&T Bell Labs, providing the foundational architecture for all computer vision deep learning.