Computer scientist
Yann LeCun
French computer scientist whose convolutional networks read handwritten cheques long before the deep learning era. Born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, near Paris.
Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, robotics and image compression. He is the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He served as Chief AI Scientist at Meta Platforms before co-founding Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs in December 2025.
- Born
- 1960-07-08, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, FranceA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Capricorn
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1960-07-08, Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Paristhe zone used then
Europe/ParisThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 16°15′ | Direct |
| Moon | Capricorn | 11°06′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 29°19′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Cancer | 20°36′ | Direct |
| Mars | Taurus | 13°00′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 26°28′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 15°02′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Leo | 19°13′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 6°23′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Virgo | 4°17′ | Direct |
Yann LeCun is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Yann LeCun was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.