Yoshua Bengio

IVADO

Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director

Recognized as one of the world’s leading figures in artificial intelligence, Yoshua Bengio has established himself as a pioneer in deep learning. This contribution earned him the A.M. Turing Award in 2018, considered the “ Nobel Prize of computing ”, alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal and Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila, the Quebec AI Institute. He also co-leads the CIFAR program Learning in Machines and Brains as a Senior Fellow, and serves as Special Advisor and Founding Scientific Director of IVADO.

In 2019, Bengio was awarded the prestigious Killam Prize and in 2022, he was the most cited computer scientist in the world by h-index. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2023, he was appointed to the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology.

In 2024, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world for his commitment to responsible artificial intelligence. In 2025, he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with six colleagues for his work in Machine Learning, and was elected an international member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Deeply concerned about the social impacts of AI and convinced that its benefits should be shared by all, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence.