Would this be the Godfather III that Q mentions?

Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal, is considered one of the three "godfathers" of deep learning, along with Yann LeCun and Geoff Hinton.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-02/deep-learning-godfather-bengio-worries-about-china-s-use-of-ai