Yann LeCun

VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

2021 - Current

VP & Chief AI Scientist

2018 - 2021

Scientific and technical leadership at Facebook AI Research, AI R&D strategy.

Director of AI Research

2013 - 2018

Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR), with research locations in Menlo Park, New York City, and Paris, focused on bringing about major advances in AI. Professor at NYU on a part-time basis (since January 2014). Cofounder and advisor of Elements Inc. (biometrics), and Museami (music technology)

Professor

2003

Silver Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (since 2006) Professor of Neural Science, NYU Center for Neural Science (since 2007) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU School of Engineering (since 2011) Professor of Data Science, NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013) Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science (since 2013) Research and teaching in machine learning, AI, data science, computer vision, robotics, computational neuroscience, and knowledge extraction from data,

Co-founder, Advisor

2012

Elements develops software-based biometric authentication technology.

Cofounder and Chief Scientist

2007 - 2016

Development of innovative software and hardware technology for, music production, music education, and musical entertainment. Products includes mobile apps such as Improvox, Hook'd and MusicPal.

Owner

2008 - 2013

Research, Development, and Technology Consulting in software, machine learning, machine vision, robotics, data mining, data modeling, statistical data analysis, OCR, data compression, music technology and related topics .

Fellow

2002 - 2003

Research in machine learning and computer vision.

Department Head

1996 - 2002

Head of the Image Processing Research Department. Directed research in machine learning, pattern recognition, image compression, video compression, animated characters. Department members included Yoshua Bengio, Leon Bottou, Eric Cosatto, Hans-Peter Graf, Patrick Haffner, Fu Jie Huang, Jörn Ostermann, Patrice Simard, Vladimir Vapnik,

research staff member

1988 - 1996

Carried out research in machine learning, neural nets, optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, signature verification, integrated circuits for pattern recogntiion, and other topics.

Research Staff Member

1988 - 1996

Research staff member

1988 - 1996

research scientist

1991 - 1991

Research Associate (postdoc)

1987 - 1988

postdoc in the Geoff Hinton's lab in the Department of Computer Science.