QEPrize Winner Announcement 2025

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

Together, the work of these engineers has laid the foundations for the machine learning that lies behind many of the most exciting innovations shaping the world today. The winners were announced by QEPrize Chair Lord Vallance of Balham at the Science Museum in London in February 2025, in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal.

Photographs: QEPrize/JAlden

2025 Laureates with HRH The Princess Royal and Lord Vallance of Balham

[Left to right] Lord Vallance of Balham, Dr Yann LeCun, HRH The Princess Royal, Professor Yoshua Bengio, Dr Bill Dally and Dr Hayaatun Sillem

2025 Laureates with HRH The Princess Royal

[Left to right] 2025 Laurates Professor Yoshua Bengio, Dr Yann LeCun and Dr Bill Dally

Host for the evening, Professor Jim Al-Khalili

[Left to right] 2025 Laurates Professor Yoshua Bengio, Dr Yann LeCun and Dr Bill Dally with Chair of Judges, Professor Dame Lynn Gladden

Guest at the Winner Announcement event with QEPrize CEO, Dr Hayaatun Sillem [centre]

Guests at the Winner Announcement event with 2025 Laureates Dr Bill Dally [right]

Guest at the Winner Announcement event with host Professor Jim Al-Khalili [centre]

Create the Trophy finalist Šimon Macurek with competition judge Zoe Laughlin

Create the Trophy finalist Oluwafunbi Botu

Create the Trophy finalist, and recipient of the Highly Commended award, Ramya Krishnamoorthy

[Left to right] Dr Yann LeCun, Dr Bill Dally and Professor Yoshua Bengio

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