When and where was Yoshua Bengio born?
Yoshua Bengio was born on the 5th of March 1964 in France. His family had emigrated to France from Morocco as Jewish refugees before moving to Canada when he was a child.
Yoshua Bengio was born on the 5th of March 1964 in France. His family had emigrated to France from Morocco as Jewish refugees before moving to Canada when he was a child.
Yoshua Bengio earned his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from McGill University. He then completed an MSc and PhD in computer science at the same institution.
Michael I. Jordan supervised Yoshua Bengio's work while he served as a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. This period occurred after he finished his doctorate at McGill University.
Yoshua Bengio signed the open letter because he demanded that all AI labs pause training systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months. He raised concerns about bad actors obtaining sophisticated AI tools and called for better regulation.
Yoshua Bengio was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2017 and won the 2018 Turing Award with Hinton and LeCun. In 2025 he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering jointly with Bill Dally and others.