# Yann LeCun

**Source:** https://www.startuphub.ai/people/yann-lecun
**Profile type:** Person

## About

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Turing Award laureate. He invented convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and pioneered deep learning, laying the foundation for modern computer vision. He advocates for open-source AI development and often publicly debates AI safety researchers.

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- **Website:** https://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yann/
- **Title:** Chief AI Scientist at Meta
- **Social:**
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yann-lecun/
  - Twitter: https://x.com/ylecun

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