AI People Wiki
Portrait of Léon Bottou
Photo: Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit

Builders & open source

Léon Bottou

Research scientist, Meta

Website and profiles

  • Research scientist, Meta12
  • Research scientist (also Microsoft Research), Microsoft1

Léon-Yves Bottou is a French computer scientist best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm.123

At a glance

Current roles
Research scientist +1 more
Company
Meta
Sources cited
4
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • Research scientist at Meta.1

Background

Léon-Yves Bottou is a French computer scientist best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm.123

Where they work

  • Meta 119 people in the wiki

Suggest a correction or removal

Profiles cover public professional work only, and each statement cites a source. If something is out of date, missing or wrong, tell us and link a source. People can also ask for their profile to be corrected or removed.

References

4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026

  1. Léon Bottou — WikipediaWikipedia · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  2. Léon Bottou — WikidataWikidata · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  3. Léon Bottou — websiteLéon Bottou · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  4. Léon Bottou — Google ScholarGoogle Scholar · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026

AI People Wiki is free and open source. Support the wiki — buy me a coffee