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Samy Bengio is an Adjunct Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a PhD in computer science from the University of Montreal, earned in 1993. He has held prominent positions in the field of machine learning, most recently serving as a senior director for machine learning research at Apple since 2021, and previously as a distinguished scientist at Google Research from 2007. Bengio led part of the Google Brain team and was integral to the early development of the IDIAP research institute. He co-developed the Torch machine learning library, which has gained significant popularity in the machine learning community. His research interests are broad and encompass aspects of machine learning, including deep architectures, representation learning, vision and language processing, and reasoning. He has served on various editorial and program committees for major conferences such as NeurIPS and ICML, and continues to contribute to the academic community through his editorial work and participation in conferences.
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