Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, head of the Machine Learning Laboratory (LISA), CIFAR Fellow in the Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception program, Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms, and he also holds the NSERC-Ubisoft industrial chair. His main research ambition is to understand principles of learning that yield intelligence. He teaches a graduate course in Machine Learning (IFT6266) and supervises a large group of graduate students and post-docs. His research is widely cited (over 16000 citations found by Google Scholar in early 2014, with an H-index of 55). Yoshua Bengio is currently action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, editor for Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, and has been associate editor for the Machine Learning Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Yoshua Bengio was Program Chair for NIPS'2008 and General Chair for NIPS'2009 (NIPS i