Dear Kai,
We are glad that you were able to sign up for an individual meeting and to attend dinner. Below is the announcement that we sent out if you can please circulate it to CS students and faculty as suggested.
Thank you!
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Date & Time: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Location: 101 - Friend Center
Speaker: Yann LeCun, New York University
Bio: Yann LeCun is the Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute - School of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Data Science. He was the Chief AI Scientist at Meta (2018-2025), the founding Director of Meta-FAIR (2013-2017), and of the NYU Center for Data Science (2011-2014). He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université (1987). After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in 2013. His interests include AI, machine learning, computer perception, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing", a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.
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Ariana Reyes
Administrative Assistant & Events
Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE)
Princeton University
Sherrerd Hall, Room 119, Princeton NJ 08544
609-258-9076
ar8562@princeton.edu
From: Bartolomeo Stellato <bstellato@princeton.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 4, 2026 10:36 AM
To: Kai Li <li@cs.princeton.edu>
Cc: Ariana M Reyes <ar8562@princeton.edu>; Connie A. Brown <connieb@princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: Meeting with Yann LeCun
Dear Kai,
Glad you were able to sign up for a meeting and dinner! Sherrerd 117 is the visitor room assigned to Yann, so it's the most convenient one for meetings. That should work well for your 1:30pm slot.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Best,
Bartolomeo
On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 12:05 AM Kai Li <li@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
Dear Bartolomeo,
I signed up for 1:30pm slot in Sherred 117. I saw Elad meets Yann there. Is it the room for me to meet him or should I meet him
in my office in CS building? I also signed up for dinner.
Thank you!
Kai
----- On Apr 3, 2026, at 7:55 PM, Bartolomeo Stellato <bstellato@princeton.edu> wrote:Dear Kai,
Thanks for reaching out. We still have a couple of slots available on the schedule, and you are welcome to sign up for lunch or dinner as well.
The sign-up sheet is here: https://princetonu-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/orfe-onedrive_princeton_edu/IQD4q0f5LrBETLWyZ6Rx7LE5AZ0aSrWqR1YOd90s6eMl-as?email=li%40cs.princeton.edu&e=vzVuuI
The talk page is here: https://orfe.princeton.edu/events/2026/yann-lecun-new-york-university. We are still waiting for the final title and abstract, but we can let you know as soon as they are available. Happy to have you circulate it to CS, of course.
Looking forward to meeting you on Tuesday.
Best,
Bartolomeo
On Fri, Apr 3, 2026, 8:15 PM Kai Li <li@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
Dear Ariana, Connie and Bartolomeo,
This is Kai Li, a faculty member at Computer Science.
Sean at NYU told me that Yann LeCun is giving a talk at ORFE and you mentioned to Sean that it would be nice for me to meet Yann.
For some reason, I couldn't find any message about this in my email. I have known Yann for over 10 years and would be great
to see him again. I am flexible to meet him on April 7th. Please let me know what time slots are available.
If you would like me to circulate his talk to CS faculty and students, please send me info about his talk so that I can forward.
Best wishes,
Kai
Kai Li
Paul & Marcia Wythes Professor
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
35 Olden street
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4637