Yann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for his pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in machine learning and deep learning. He is one of the key figures behind the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are widely used in image recognition and computer vision tasks. LeCun is a professor at New York University and serves as the Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook). He has received numerous awards for his contributions to AI, including the Turing Award in 2018, which he shared with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work in deep learning.