Yoshua Bengio is a pioneer of deep learning and holds numerous influential roles in academic research including: Full Professor in the Computer Science and Operations Research Department at U. Montréal; Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila) and of the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO); Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms; member of the NeurIPS board and co-founder and general chair for the ICLR conference; and, program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains. He is the recipient of many accolades testifying to his impact as a researcher, most notable of which is the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, for his breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. He has also been awarded as an Officer of the Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society (England and Canada), the Marie-Victorin Prize, and the Radio-Canada Scientist of the year in 2017. In 2018, he earned the most citations per day among all computer scientists, worldwide.
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