léon bottou
Deep Learning (Interview With Leon Bottou)
His research career took him to AT&T Bell Laboratories, AT&T Labs Research, NEC Labs America and Microsoft. He joined Facebook AI Research in 2015. The long term goal of Léon's research is to understand how to build human-level intelligence. Although reaching this goal requires conceptual advances that cannot be anticipated at this point, it certainly entails clarifying how to learn and how to reason. Leon Bottou best known contributions are his work on neural networks in the 90s, his work on large scale learning in the 00's, and possibly his more recent work on causal inference in learning systems.