Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and NYU professor; former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-author of V-JEPA 2
- Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs)1
- Jacob T. Schwartz Professor, affiliated with the Courant Institute, New York University1
Yann LeCun is the Executive Chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at New York University, affiliated with the Courant Institute. LeCun was the Chief AI Scientist at Meta from 2018 to 2025, the founding Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) from 2013 to 2017, and the founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science from 2011 to 2014, after research positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, AT&T Labs and the NEC Research Institute. LeCun's bio credits LeCun with the convolutional network method, and LeCun is a co-author of V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video model for understanding, prediction and robot planning.12
Work
V-JEPA 2Published research
Co-author of "V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning" (2025), which pre-trains a joint-embedding-predictive architecture on internet video and post-trains an action-conditioned world model, V-JEPA 2-AC, for robot planning.2
Convolutional networksPublished research
LeCun's published bio credits LeCun with the convolutional network method, which it describes as used for image, video and speech recognition.1
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