Biography:Samy Bengio

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Samy Bengio
Bengio in 2021
Born1965 (age 60–61)
Paris, France
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsApple, Google, IDIAP Research Institute, Microcell Labs, EPFL
ThesisOptimisation d'une règle d'apprentissage pour réseaux de neurones artificiels (Optimization of a learning rule for artificial neural networks) (1993)
Websitebengio.abracadoudou.com

Samy Bengio (born 1965) is a Canadian computer scientist working as senior director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research at Apple.[1]

Education

Bengio obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1993 with a thesis titled Optimization of a Parametric Learning Rule for Neural Networks from the Université de Montréal. Before that, Bengio got an M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1989 with a thesis on Integration of Traditional and Intelligence Tutoring Systems from the same university, together with a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 1986.

Scientific contributions

According to DBLP, Bengio has authored around 250 scientific papers on neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, statistics, computer vision and natural language processing.[2] The most cited[3] of these include some of the early works sparking the 2010s deep learning revolution by showing how to explore the many learned representations obtained through deep learning,[4] one of the first deep learning approaches to image captioning,[5] efforts to understand why deep learning works[6] leading to many follow-up works.[7] He also worked on the first evidence that adversarial examples can exist in the real world, i.e., one can change a physical object such that a machine learning system would be fooled[8] and one of the first works on zero-shot recognition, i.e., recognizing classes never seen during training.[9]

Professional activities

Bengio is senior director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research at Apple and an adjunct professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[10] He was a longtime scientist at Google,[11] where he led a large group of researchers working in machine learning, including adversarial settings. Bengio left Google shortly after the company fired Timnit Gebru without first notifying him.[12][13] At the time, Bengio said that he had been "stunned" by what happened to Gebru.[14]

Bengio worked at the IDIAP Research Institute and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, from 1999 to 2007.[15] He was appointed adjunct professor in Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in 2024.[10]

He was general chair of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in 2018,[16] served as program chair of the conference in 2017,[17] and is currently a board member.[18] He was also program chair of ICLR (2015–2016)[19] and sits on its board (2018–2020).[20]

He is a co-author of Torch,[21] the ancestor of PyTorch,[22] one of today's two largest machine learning frameworks.[23]

Bengio is an editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.[24]

Personal life

Samy Bengio was born to two Moroccan Jews who emigrated to France and Canada. His brother Yoshua is a Turing Award winner.[25] Both of them lived in Morocco for a year during their father's military service there.[25] His father, Carlo Bengio, was a pharmacist who wrote theatre pieces and ran a Sephardic theatrical troupe in Montreal that played Judeo-Arabic pieces.[26][27] His mother, Célia Moreno, is also an artist who played in one of the major theatre scenes of Morocco that was run by Tayeb Seddiki in the 1970s.[28]

References

  1. ↑ "Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist who resigned after colleagues' firings" (in en). 2021-05-03. https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-hires-ex-google-ai-scientist-who-resigned-after-colleagues-firing-2021-05-03/. 
  2. ↑ "dblp: Samy Bengio" (in en). https://dblp.org/pid/b/SamyBengio.html. 
  3. ↑ "Samy Bengio". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vs-MdPcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. 
  4. ↑ Erhan, Dumitru; Bengio, Yoshua; Courville, Aaron; Manzagol, Pierre-Antoine; Vincent, Pascal; Bengio, Samy (2010-03-01). "Why Does Unsupervised Pre-training Help Deep Learning?". The Journal of Machine Learning Research 11: 625–660. ISSN 1532-4435. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1756006.1756025. 
  5. ↑ Vinyals, Oriol; Toshev, Alexander; Bengio, Samy; Erhan, Dumitru (June 2015). "Show and tell: A neural image caption generator". 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). IEEE. pp. 3156–3164. doi:10.1109/cvpr.2015.7298935. ISBN 978-1-4673-6964-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2015.7298935. 
  6. ↑ Zhang, Chiyuan; Bengio, Samy; Hardt, Moritz; Recht, Benjamin; Vinyals, Oriol (March 2021). "Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking generalization". Communications of the ACM 64 (3): 107–115. doi:10.1145/3446776. ISSN 0001-0782. 
  7. ↑ "Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4613672282544622621&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en. 
  8. ↑ Kurakin, Alexey; Goodfellow, Ian J.; Bengio, Samy (2018-07-27), "Adversarial Examples in the Physical World", Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security (Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC): pp. 99–112, doi:10.1201/9781351251389-8, ISBN 978-1-351-25138-9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781351251389-8, retrieved 2021-02-24 
  9. ↑ Frome, Andrea; Corrado, Greg S.; Shlens, Jonathon; Bengio, Samy; Dean, Jeffrey; Ranzato, Marc'Aurelio; Mikolov, Tomas (2013-12-05). "DeViSE: a deep visual-semantic embedding model". Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Volume 2. NIPS'13 (Lake Tahoe, Nevada: Curran Associates Inc.) 2: 2121–2129. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2999792.2999849. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Evangelista, Sandy (2024-12-05). "Appointment of EPFL professors" (Press release). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  11. ↑ "Another prominent Google scientist is leaving the company amid fallout from fired AI researcher" (in en). 6 April 2021. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/06/googles-samy-bengio-is-leaving-amid-fallout-from-ai-researcher-firing.html. 
  12. ↑ Dave, Jeffrey Dastin, Paresh (2020-12-17). "Google staff demand exec step aside after ethicist's firing - document" (in en). Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-research-idUSKBN28R0F0. 
  13. ↑ Schiffer, Zoe (2021-04-06). "Google AI manager resigns following controversial firings of two top researchers" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/6/22370372/google-research-manager-resigns-timnit-gebru-margaret-mitchell-firing. 
  14. ↑ "Samy Bengio" (in en). https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3469738016467233&id=100002932057665. 
  15. ↑ (in fr) Samy Bengio: de l'IDIAP à Google. 2008-04-11. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/samy-bengio-de-l-idiap-a-google/. 
  16. ↑ "2018 Organizing Committee". https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/Committees. 
  17. ↑ "NIPS 2017 Committees". https://nips.cc/Conferences/2017/Committees. 
  18. ↑ "Board, Neural Information Processing Systems". https://nips.cc/Conferences/2020/Board. 
  19. ↑ "ICLR 2015". https://iclr.cc/archive/www/2015.html. 
  20. ↑ "2020 Board". https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2020/Board. 
  21. ↑ Collobert, Ronan; Bengio, Samy; Marithoz, Johnny (2002). Torch: A Modular Machine Learning Software Library. 
  22. ↑ Yegulalp, Serdar (2017-01-19). "Facebook brings GPU-powered machine learning to Python" (in en). https://www.infoworld.com/article/3159120/facebook-brings-gpu-powered-machine-learning-to-python.html. 
  23. ↑ "The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019" (in en). 2019-10-10. https://thegradient.pub/state-of-ml-frameworks-2019-pytorch-dominates-research-tensorflow-dominates-industry/. 
  24. ↑ "Samy Bengio | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". 17 October 2017. https://simons.berkeley.edu/people/samy-bengio. 
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Interview: The Bengio Brothers" (in en-US). 28 March 2019. https://www.eye-on.ai/ai-articles/2019/3/28/interview-the-bengio-brothers. 
  26. ↑ Levy, Elias (2019-05-08). "À la mémoire de Carlo Bengio" (in en-US). https://www.cjnews.com/en-francais/a-la-memoire-de-carlo-bengio. 
  27. ↑ Tahiri, Lalla Nouzha (July 2017). Le théâtre juif marocain : une mémoire en exil : remémoration, représentation et transmission (Thèse ou essai doctoral accepté thesis) (in français). Montréal (Québec, Canada): Université du Québec à Montréal.
  28. ↑ "Célia Moréno, une marocaine au Québec" (in fr-FR). 2020-11-14. https://mazagan24.com/2020/11/14/celia-moreno-une-marocaine-au-quebec/. 



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