# Yann LeCun (@yann-lecun)

Yann LeCun is a computer scientist whose research helped establish convolutional neural networks and modern deep learning. He connected algorithmic ideas with working document-recognition systems and later helped build major academic and industrial AI research programs.


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## Topics

- [Building AI Research Institutions](/@yann-lecun/building-ai-research.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Convolutional Neural Networks](/@yann-lecun/convolutional-networks.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [From Research to Document Recognition](/@yann-lecun/document-recognition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://cds.nyu.edu/faculty/yann-lecun/
- blog: https://ai.meta.com/people/yann-lecun/
- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lecun_6017366.cfm
- blog: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/lenet/

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```

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