YL

Yann LeCun

VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

New York, New York

Angel

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Research
machine learning
computer vision
robotics
Statistical Data Analysis
Data Mining
C
C++
Image Processing
Research Management
Computational Neuroscience
Image Compression
Artificial Intelligence
Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Algorithms
Computer Vision
Perl
Computer Science
Robotics

Education

Investments

DatologyAI

Seed

Total Funding: $58M

Perplexity AI

Seed

Total Funding: $170M

Wayve

Series A

Total Funding: $240M

Antescofo

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Faira

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Caption Health

Seed

Total Funding: $61M

Work Experience

Facebook

2013

  • VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

    2021

  • 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)

New York University

2003

  • 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,

Element Inc

2012

  • Co-founder, Advisor

    2012

    Elements develops software-based biometric authentication technology.

MuseAmi

2007 - 2016

  • 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.

YLC Consulting LLC

2008 - 2013

  • 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 .

NEC Research Institute

2002 - 2003

  • Fellow

    2002 - 2003

    Research in machine learning and computer vision.

AT&T Labs Research

1996 - 2002

  • 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,

AT&T Bell Laboratories

1988 - 1996

  • 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

THALES - Laboratoire Central de Recherche

1991 - 1991

  • research scientist

    1991 - 1991

University of Toronto

1987 - 1988

  • Research Associate (postdoc)

    1987 - 1988

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