Yoshua Bengio  


Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor
Department of Computer Science and Operations Research
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms
<my first name> (dot) <my last name> (at sign) umontreal (dot) ca

 

 

Curriculum Vitae


More complete, pdf version, here, including publication list, last updated November 15th, 2009.

Summary of CV:

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science, @ McGill University, 1991
M.Sc. Computer Science, @ McGill University, 1988

PROFESSIONAL WORK
Full professor 2002- @(DIRO, UdeM)
Associate professor 1997-2002 @(DIRO, UdeM)
Assistant professor 1993-1997 @(DIRO, UdeM)
Researcher @ AT&T Bell Labs, 1992-93 (and continued collaboration until 1997), with Yann Le Cun, Vladmir Vapnik, Larry Jackel, Leon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Patrice Simard, Isabelle Guyon, and John Denker.
Postdoc @ MIT (with Mike Jordan), 1991-92

TITLES AND DISTINCTIONS
Full Professor, University of Montreal, department of computer science and operations research (DIRO)
Canada Research Chair on Statistical Learning Algorithms since 2000
NSERC-Ubisoft Industrial Research Chair
Recipient of the 2009 Urgel Archambault Prize from ACFAS (for researchers in physics, mathematics, computer science, or engineering)
Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
Fellow of CIRANO (Interuniversity Centre of Research, Liaison, and Transfer of Knowledge on the Analysis of Organizations)

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
General Chair for NIPS'2009
Program Chair for NIPS'2008
Co-organizer of the Learning Workshop (a.k.a. as the "Snowbird Workshop" since it is often held there) since 1998 with Yann LeCun
Action Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research
Editor, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning
Previously associate editor, Machine Learning Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Leader of the MITACS Canadian research group on Statistical Learning of Complex Data with Complex Distributions
Founder and head of the Machine Learning laboratory (LISA), University of Montreal
Ex-Member of the board of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
Co-founder of a spin-off company winner of an entrepreurship prize: Apstat Technologies