Yoshua Bengio / Mila & Université de Montréal — AI Researcher

**Yoshua Bengio** is a Professor at the **Université de Montréal**, the founder and Scientific Director of **Mila** (the Quebec AI Institute — the world's largest academic AI research center), and a co-recipient of the **2018 Turing Award** alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is widely regarded as one of the three "Godfathers of Deep Learning," but among the three, Bengio has most fully pivoted his career toward **AI governance, safety policy, and international coordination**.