The 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize (QEPrize) for Engineering has celebrated seven pioneers in the field of AI, including Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang.

The QEPrize is awarded annually to engineers responsible for ground-breaking innovations that have been of global benefit to humanity.

This year’s prize has been awarded to seven engineers who have made seminal contributions to the advancement of modern machine learning, a foundational component driving progress in AI.

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann LeCun, Huang, Bill Dally and Fei-Fei Li have all been pivotal in advancing the three core pillars of modern AI: algorithms, hardware and datasets.

The groundbreaking research of Bengio, Hinton, Hopfield and LeCun into artificial neural networks has enabled machines to process and learn from vast amounts of data in ways previously unimaginable.

Hardware pioneers Huang and Dally and their work on graphics processing units have been central to scaling machine learning algorithms...