Joshua Bengio

Joshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC (French: Yoshua Bengio, born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist known for his research in artificial neural networks and deep learning. His most famous work is the neural probabilistic language model, ReLU and attention mechanism. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. Bengio, together with Jeffrey Hinton and Likun Yang, received the 2018 Turing Award in recognition of their contributions to deep learning. These three people are sometimes called the "Godfathers of AI" and the "Godfathers of Deep Learning."