| RefNo | EC/2020/02 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Bengio, Yoshua: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 14 April 2020 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Yoshua Bengio as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citaion giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Yoshua Bengio is nominated for his seminal and unique contributions to artificial intelligence. Among the instrumental founding fathers of the field of deep learning, he contributed to understanding the training issues of learning of recurrent neural networks, the combinatorial advantages of distributed representations and network depth, the discovery of word embeddings, breakthroughs of deep learning from auto-encoders and demonstrating that piecewise-linear nonlinearities enable training deeper networks, deep generative neural networks like the generative adversarial networks, and finally, soft content-based attention mechanisms, which revolutionized machine translation and became standard building blocks of sequential processing with deep learning. For his achievements, he received the Turing Award in 2019. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |