Professor Yoshua Bengio
AFFILIATION Université de Montréal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Canada SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering Neural Networks and Deep Learning Algorithms Professor Yoshua Bengio is honored for his pioneering work in neural networks, including significant advancements in representation learning and generative models. His development of high-dimensional word embeddings in his 2000 landmark paper, “A […]
Professor Geoffrey Everest Hinton
AFFILIATION University of Toronto, Canada SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering Neural Networks and Deep Learning Algorithms Professor Geoffrey Hinton is awarded for his leadership and foundational work in neural network architectures. His 1986 paper with David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams demonstrated distributed representations in neural networks trained by the backpropagation algorithm. This method has since […]
Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang
AFFILIATION NVIDIA, United States SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Computational Architectures for Deep Learning and Accelerated Computing Mr. Jen-Hsun is recognized for his visionary leadership in transforming graphics processor units (GPUs) into powerful tools for deep learning and accelerated computing across the sciences. As the founder of NVIDIA, Huang led the development of the CUDA platform, […]
Professor Yann LeCun
AFFILIATION Meta and New York University, United States SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision Professor Yann LeCun is honored for his pioneering work in developing convolutional neural networks (CNNs), a key technology in advancing image recognition and deep learning. His work on CNNs in the late 1980s laid the foundation for […]
Professor Fei-Fei Li
AFFILIATION Stanford University, United States SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering Contributions to Computer Vision and Large-Scale Image Recognition Professor Fei-Fei Li is recognized for her pioneering contributions to computer vision and the development of the ImageNet dataset. Her leadership of the ImageNet project revolutionized image recognition by creating an extensive, labeled dataset that enabled machines […]
Professor Martin Andrew Green
AFFILIATION University of New South Wales, Australia SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Pioneering the breakthrough in green energy production with the invention of solar cells enhanced by Passivated Emitter and Rear Contact (PERC) technology The improvement of the solar cells efficiency ushered in an era of productive renewable energy harvestation, thereby contributing to a more equitable […]
Professor Stanley Whittingham
AFFILIATION Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Discovery of the principles behind the Lithium-ion batteries, identified Lithium ion as the most promising charge carrier. Prof. Stanley Whittingham is the pioneer who uncovered the operational principles of Lithium-ion batteries. Stemming from his breakthrough in 1974, he built the first Lithium-ion […]
Professor Akira Yoshino
AFFILIATION Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University, Japan SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Development of carbon black as anode in the Lithium ion batteries Professor Akira Yoshino stands out for his pioneering development of carbon black as a Lithium-ion batteries anode. Leveraging his study of polymeric material, he applied these discoveries to the use of carbon […]
Professor Rachid Yazami
AFFILIATION KVI Holdings, Singapore SUMMARY OF WINNING ENTRY Investigated electrochemical intercalation of graphite and the thermodynamics of the battery charging/discharging processes Professor Rachid Yazami pioneered the exploration of reversible electrochemical intercalation of Lithium-ions into graphite, laying the foundation for the development of modern Lithium-ion batteries. His research delved into combining nanomaterials such as nano-silicon, carbon […]
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA
BIOGRAPHY CoFounder and CTO, Inrupt Inc Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation Professor Emeritus in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Co-Founder, Open Data Institute Director of World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee, an Oxford graduate and British computer […]
Dr. Vinton Gray Cerf
BIOGRAPHY Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; former President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Dr. Vinton (Vint) Gray Cerf, born 23 June 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American computer scientist who is considered one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’. He obtained a BSc in mathematics at Stanford University […]
Dr. Emmanuel Desurvire
BIOGRAPHY VP Thales Technical Fellow and Scientific Advisor at Thales Research and Technology. Previously, he held positions at Stanford University, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbia University, and Alcatel. Emmanuel Desurvire (Ph.D, Sc.D, IEEE Fellow, Alcatel-Lucent Fellow and VP Thales Technical Fellow) has obtained a M.S. degree in theoretical physics at the university of Pierre & Marie […]
