Professor Yoshua Bengio

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Yoshua Bengio is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning and is recognised worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence.

He is Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains programme and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

He has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Killam Prize and Herzberg Gold medal in Canada, CIFAR’s AI Chair, Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award, the VinFuture Prize and he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN’s Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology.

Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and currently chairs the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.

The 2025 QEPrize is awarded to Yoshua Bengio, Bill Dally, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Jensen Huang, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li.

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded for contributions to the development of Modern Machine Learning, a core component of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements..