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(Computer scientist, and Artificial intelligence researcher) Yoshua Bengio is a prominent Canadian computer scientist recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and serves as the scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA). Alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, Bengio received the prestigious 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their work in deep learning. Revered as one of the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning," Bengio holds the highest h-index among computer scientists.