Officer of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2017-05-11
Invested on: 2018-05-10
Yoshua Bengio, O.C.
Montréal, Quebec
A global leader in his field, Yoshua Bengio continually pushes the boundaries of research and artificial intelligence. Université de Montréal 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 d’informatique des systèmes adaptatifs and the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, he has helped to make Montréal an international hub for artificial intelligence research, attracting venture capital and such technology giants as Google, Microsoft and Facebook.