Thinker
Yann LeCun
Deep Learning Pioneer
Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Turing Award laureate, is the architect behind convolutional neural networks (CNNs). His LeNet model in the late 1980s laid the foundation for today's machine vision systems. LeCun’s innovations have powered breakthroughs across fields—from reading postal codes to enabling autonomous cars and facial recognition.