Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li have received the Queen Elizabeth prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for contributions to the development of Modern Machine Learning, a core component of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements. The QEPrize champions bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of global benefit to humanity.

Yann LeCun is a VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta, former IPAM Science Advisory Board Member, and longtime IPAM program organizer, speaker, and participant. Recent Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton is emeritus distinguished professor at the University of Toronto and was an organizer and speaker of the IPAM Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning in 2012. Yoshua Bengio is Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute and was also an organizer and speaker of the IPAM Graduate Summer School: Deep Learning, Feature Learning in 2012. Dr Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and was a speaker for the IPAM Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind in 2007. Please join us in congratulating the QEPrize recipients on this prestigious award.