His contact:
website : yann.lecun.com
ABOUT:
Yann LeCun was born near Paris, France, in 1960. He received a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Superieure d’Ingénieur en Electrotechnique et Electronique (ESIEE), Paris in 1983, and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1987 during which he proposed an early form of the back-propagation learning algorithm for neural networks.
He was a postdoctoral research associate in Geoffrey Hinton’s lab at the University of Toronto from 1987 to 1988.
n 1988, he joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, United States, headed by Lawrence D. Jackel, where he developed a number of new machine learning methods