Yoshua Bengio ( http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/yoshua_en/index.html ) is one of the machine learning professors who led the deep learning renaissance of 2006, along with Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun. His research work focuses on advancing machine learning to the point that it can be used to solve artificial intelligence applications. He is one of the last deep learning professors to remain completely in academia, after several other deep learning professors have joined companies such as Google and Facebook.
Yoshua will answer your questions on Thursday from 1-2PM EST. I am one of his grad students and I am creating this thread in advance so that people who are not able to go online at that time can post questions ahead of time. I'll post a verification from my Google+ account in the comments, and Yoshua will post a verification of his username on Thursday.
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