- Founder and Scientific Director, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute21
- Full Professor, Université de Montréal1
- Founder and Scientific Director, LawZero41
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair, CIFAR1
Yoshua Bengio is a professor at the Université de Montréal, founder and scientific director of Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, and founder and scientific director of LawZero. With Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.1234
At a glance
- Current roles
- Founder and Scientific Director +3 more
- Companies
- Mila, LawZero, Université de Montréal
- Education
- Université de Montréal
- Honors
- 2
- Sources cited
- 4
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Academic leadership and Mila
Bengio is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal and holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Bengio founded Mila and serves as its scientific director.12
Bengio is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society (London), and a Fellow of CIFAR.12
Deep learning and the Turing Award
Together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.3
Bengio's research has included neural language models, representation learning, generative models, and attention mechanisms used in sequence modeling, alongside work on AI safety and societal impact.12
LawZero and AI safety
Bengio founded LawZero, a nonprofit AI safety research organization, and serves as its scientific director.41
Timeline
- Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun received the ACM A.M. Turing Award.3
Honors and recognition
Where they work
- Mila 3 people in the wiki
- LawZero 1 person in the wiki
- Université de Montréal 1 person in the wiki
Related people
- Su Lin BlodgettAlso at Mila
- Razvan PascanuAlso at Mila
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- Igor BabuschkinSafety and alignment · Language models
- Jürgen SchmidhuberMachine-learning theory · Language models
- Yejin ChoiLanguage models · Safety and alignment
- Eric Michael SmithSafety and alignment · Language models
- Kenneth LiLanguage models · Safety and alignment
- Arthur ConmySafety and alignment · Language models
- Ian R. McKenzieSafety and alignment · Language models
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4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026