Geoffrey Hinton (photo by Johnny Guatto)
Geoffrey Hinton recognized with Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Published: February 5, 2025
Geoffrey Hinton, a University Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been named one of seven recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
The annual prize is awarded to engineers whose innovations have benefited humanity on a global scale.
Hinton, widely regarded as the "godfather of AI," was recognized for his groundbreaking research on artificial neural networks, which has enabled advancements in modern machine learning. He shares the prize with Princeton University's John Hopfield – his co-laureate for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics – as well as Université de Montréal's Yoshua Bengio, Stanford University's Fei-Fei Li, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang, NVIDIA chief scientist Bill Dally and Facebook AI Research scientist Yann LeCun
“Receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a wonderful honour and recognition of the role engineering plays in advancing society," Hinton said in a press release. "I hope this award will encourage future innovators to address our world's most pressing challenges including the challenge of making AI safe so that we can all reap its benefits.”
