Yann LeCun

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New York, New York, United States39 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Leading expert in AI and machine learning.
  • Extensive academic and industry experience.
  • Founder of multiple innovative tech companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and machine learning research with a strong academic and entrepreneurial background.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningAi

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC++Computer ScienceData AnalysisData ScienceImage CompressionImage ProcessingLaTeXMathematical ModelingNeural NetworksNeuroscienceOptimizationPattern RecognitionPerl

About

Professor, researcher, and R&D manager with academic and industry experience in AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, intelligent data analysis, data mining, data compression, digital library systems, and robotics. Specialties: research, technical consulting, scientific advising.

Experience

Advanced machine intelligence - ami labs

Executive Chairman

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos · New York, United States

Facebook

3 roles

VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

Oct 2021Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 3 mos

VP & Chief AI Scientist

Promoted

Mar 2018Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Scientific and technical leadership at Facebook AI Research, AI R&D strategy.

Director of AI Research

Dec 2013Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), with research locations in Menlo Park, New York City, and Paris, focused on bringing about major advances in AI.
  • Professor at NYU on a part-time basis (since January 2014).
  • Cofounder and advisor of Elements Inc. (biometrics), and Museami (music technology)

Element inc

Co-founder, Advisor

Jul 2012Present · 13 yrs 8 mos · New York City

  • Elements develops software-based biometric authentication technology.

Ylc consulting llc

Owner

Jan 2008Dec 2013 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Research, Development, and Technology Consulting in software, machine learning, machine vision, robotics, data mining, data modeling, statistical data analysis, OCR, data compression, music technology and related topics .

Museami

Cofounder and Chief Scientist

Jan 2007Jan 2016 · 9 yrs · Greater New York City Area

  • Development of innovative software and hardware technology for, music production, music education, and musical entertainment. Products includes mobile apps such as Improvox, Hook'd and MusicPal.

New york university

Professor

Sep 2003Present · 22 yrs 6 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (since 2006)
  • Professor of Neural Science, NYU Center for Neural Science (since 2007)
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU School of Engineering (since 2011)
  • Professor of Data Science, NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013)
  • Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013)
  • Research and teaching in machine learning, AI, data science, computer vision, robotics, computational neuroscience, and knowledge extraction from data,
machine learningAIdata sciencecomputer visionroboticscomputational neuroscience

Nec research institute

Fellow

Jan 2002Aug 2003 · 1 yr 7 mos · Princeton, NJ

  • Research in machine learning and computer vision.

At&t labs research

Department Head

Jan 1996Jan 2002 · 6 yrs · Middletown, NJ

  • Head of the Image Processing Research Department.
  • Directed research in machine learning, pattern recognition, image compression, video compression, animated characters. Department members included Yoshua Bengio, Leon Bottou, Eric Cosatto, Hans-Peter Graf, Patrick Haffner, Fu Jie Huang, Jörn Ostermann, Patrice Simard, Vladimir Vapnik,

Thales - laboratoire central de recherche

research scientist

Jan 1991Jan 1991 · 0 mo

At&t bell laboratories

3 roles

research staff member

Oct 1988Jan 1996 · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Carried out research in machine learning, neural nets, optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, signature verification, integrated circuits for pattern recogntiion, and other topics.

Research Staff Member

Jan 1988Jan 1996 · 8 yrs

Research staff member

Jan 1988Jan 1996 · 8 yrs

University of toronto

Research Associate (postdoc)

Jan 1987Jan 1988 · 1 yr

  • postdoc in the Geoff Hinton's lab in the Department of Computer Science.

Education

Pierre and Marie Curie University

PhD — Computer Science

Jan 1983Jan 1987

ESIEE PARIS

Engineering Diploma — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 1978Jan 1983

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