{"id":8348,"date":"2018-01-29T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vieux.ivado.ca\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:22:06","slug":"yoshua-bengio-named-scientist-of-the-year-by-radio-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vieux.ivado.ca\/en\/news\/yoshua-bengio-named-scientist-of-the-year-by-radio-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshua Bengio named ‘Scientist of the Year’ by Radio-Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Radio-Canada has selected Yoshua Bengio, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research and head of the\u00a0Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms<\/a>, as the 2017 Scientist of the Year.<\/p>\n

This honour was bestowed on Yoshua Bengio this morning at an\u00a0awards ceremony held at the Maison de Radio-Canada<\/a>, in the presence of Michel Bissonnette, executive vice-president of French services for Radio-Canada, and Marie-Jos\u00e9e H\u00e9bert, UdeM\u2019s vice-rector of research, discovery, creation and innovation, along with other distinguished guests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to Yoshua Bengio, global tech giants have recognized Quebec as a hub of expertise in the field of information technology and the Internet,\u201d Blondin said. \u201cHe has helped lay the foundation for the emergence of exhilarating developments in this area for Montreal and Quebec, not to mention nurturing an impressive pool of talent here over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is absolutely no doubt that Yoshua Bengio stands as one of the foremost researchers of 2017,\u201d said H\u00e9bert. \u201cHis work has shone an international spotlight on Montreal, which is rapidly becoming the place to be in the world of artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cYoshua Bengio is also an inspiration to me as a researcher, because he shows a genuine concern for the social and ethical issues raised by his work and that of his colleagues. He doesn\u2019t hesitate to participate in the public debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

H\u00e9bert pointed out that Professor Bengio also contributed to the creation of the\u00a0Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, currently being drafted at UdeM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A world pioneer in AI<\/h2>\n

In addition to his work at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Bengio is scientific director of the\u00a0Institute for Data Valorization<\/a>, co-director of the program on\u00a0Learning in Machines & Brains<\/a>\u00a0of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and\u00a0Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A leading world authority on deep learning, Professor Bengio\u2019s goal is to understand the mathematical and computational mechanisms that give rise to intelligence through learning. Among his many contributions, he is widely recognized for his theoretical results on recurrent neural networks, kernel machines, distributed representations, depth of neural architectures and the optimization challenge of deep learning.<\/p>\n

His work has been crucial in advancing knowledge on how deep networks are trained, how neural networks can learn vector embeddings for words, how to perform automatic translation with deep learning by taking advantage of an attention mechanism and how to perform unsupervised learning with deep generative models.<\/p>\n

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