Yoshua Bengio is a Turing Award-winning computer scientist and a pioneer of deep learning. He is a professor at Université de Montréal, the founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and co-president and scientific director of LawZero, where he leads research on safe-by-design AI.
Yoshua Bengio is a Turing Award-winning computer scientist and a pioneer of deep learning. He is a professor at Université de Montréal, the founder and scientific advisor of Mila, and co-president and scientific director of LawZero, where he leads research on safe-by-design AI.
Career
Co-president and Scientific Director at LawZero from 2025 to PresentCo-founded and leads the nonprofit AI-safety research organization.
Professor of Computer Science at Université de Montréal from 1993 to PresentServes on the computer-science faculty and conducts research in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Founder and Scientific Advisor at Mila until PresentFounded the Quebec artificial-intelligence institute and serves as its scientific advisor.