Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 11, 2017
• Invested on: May 10, 2018

Yoshua Bengio, O.C.
MontrÚal, Quebec

A global leader in his field, Yoshua Bengio continually pushes the boundaries of research and artificial intelligence. UniversitÚ de MontrÚal computer science professor, he is doing innovative work on deep neural networks to help machines better understand the world around us. Founder of the Laboratoire dÆinformatique des systÞmes adaptatifs and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, he has helped to make MontrÚal an international hub for artificial intelligence research, attracting venture capital and such technology giants as Google, Microsoft and Facebook.