Yoshua Bengio

Regular research member

• Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Faculty of Arts and Science, Université de Montréal
• Scientific Director, Mila
• Scientific Director, IVADO

Thematic groups

• Digital Sobriety and Socio-Ecological Transition
• Ethics, Governance and Democracy

Recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair.

In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, the country's most significant scientific prize. He is the computer scientist with the highest h-index citation metric and ranked third among all disciplines by scientific impact according to the Stanford bibliometric study. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, ACM Fellow, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology and Scientific advisor for the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI).

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and devotes himself to reducing the catastrophic risks of future AI and devotes himself to reducing the catastrophic risks of future AI.