2015 · Nature
Deep learning
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About
Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (NYU). He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.
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581 papers in total1998 · Proceedings of the IEEE
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
59,951 citationsRead
1989 · Neural Computation
Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition
12,221 citationsRead
2006
Dimensionality Reduction by Learning an Invariant Mapping
5,299 citationsRead
1998 · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
Convolutional networks for images, speech, and time series
4,337 citationsRead
2005
Learning a Similarity Metric Discriminatively, with Application to Face Verification
3,993 citationsRead