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The winner of the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is Modern Neural Interfaces.

The 2026 QEPrize is awarded to Alim Louis Benabid, Jocelyne Bloch, Graeme Clark, Grégoire Courtine, John Donoghue, Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg Hochmair, Pierre Pollak and Blake Wilson.

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded for the design and development of modern neural interfaces that restore human function.

Winners

2025 Winner

Modern Machine Learning

The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to Bill Dally, Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Jensen Huang, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio for contributions to the development of Modern Machine Learning, a core component of artificial intelligence (AI) developments.

2024 Winner

Modern Wind Power Technology

The 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is awarded to Andrew Garrad and Henrik Stiesdal for advancing the design, manufacture and deployment of high-performance wind turbines, allowing wind energy to make a substantial contribution to the world’s electricity generation.

2023 Winner

PERC Solar Photovoltaic Technology

The 2023 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is awarded to Professor Martin Green, Professor Andrew Blakers, Dr Aihua Wang and Dr Jianhua Zhao for the invention and development of Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) solar photovoltaic technology.

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Create the Trophy

The 2024 Create the Trophy competition winner is Sunil Thakkar, age 17, from India

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