Jan LeChun

Yang Likun (July 8, 1960 -), French name Yann André Le Cun (French: Yann André Le Cun, pronounced: [jan ɑdʁe ləkœə];), is a French computer scientist and the winner of the 2018 Turing Award. He has made many contributions in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robots and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work using convolutional neural networks in optical character recognition and computer vision. Yang Likun created the DjVu image compression technology with Leon Botto and Patrick Haffner, and developed the Lush language with Leon Botto. In 2019, he, Joshua Bengio and Jeffrey Hinton jointly won the Turing Award, the highest award in computer science.