Biography
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist. Born in France in 1964, he is a professor at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Mila). He is known for his contributions to artificial neural networks and deep learning, and shared the 2018 Turing Award.
Bengio appears as himself in the 2026 documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, in which he discusses developments in artificial intelligence alongside other researchers and industry figures.
