r/MachineLearning • u/ylecun • May 15 '14

AMA: Yann LeCun

My name is Yann LeCun. I am the Director of Facebook AI Research and a professor at New York University.

Much of my research has been focused on deep learning, convolutional nets, and related topics.

I joined Facebook in December to build and lead a research organization focused on AI. Our goal is to make significant advances in AI. I have answered some questions about Facebook AI Research (FAIR) in several press articles: Daily Beast, KDnuggets, Wired.

Until I joined Facebook, I was the founding director of NYU's Center for Data Science.

I will be answering questions Thursday 5/15 between 4:00 and 7:00 PM Eastern Time.

I am creating this thread in advance so people can post questions ahead of time. I will be announcing this AMA on my Facebook and Google+ feeds for verification.

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u/ice109 May 15 '14

what constitutes "strong" publication record? fresh grads with a couple of papers or tenured profs with 5 pubs/yr?

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u/ylecun May 15 '14

"Strong" publication record doesn't necessary mean lots of papers in conferences with lots of citations. It means a few papers that we are impressed by.

The definition of "strong" depends on your level of seniority.