Yoshua Bengio is winner of the Elizabeth Engineering Reine Prize

Yoshua Bengio is winner of the Elizabeth Engineering Reine Prize


The Reine Elizabeth Engineering Prize is an international distinction which recognizes a revolutionary innovation in the field of engineering. It rewards an individual or a team of engineers whose work has had a major influence on humanity. This year, she is granted to Yoshua Bengio and his colleagues Geoffrey Hinton, John Hopfield, Yann Lecun, Jensen Huang, Bill Dall and Fei-Fei Li for their contribution to the development of automatic learning, an essential element of intelligence artificial (ia). These technological advances provide AI systems with a self -evolution capacity, allowing them to assimilate information, adjust and improve their performance by using data.

More specifically, this price highlights the significant contribution of these scientists to the progress of three key components of modern automatic learning: advanced algorithms, high performance equipment and high quality data sets. The combination of these interdependent advances underpins the generalized adoption and application of artificial intelligence systems. Yoshua Bengio and his colleagues also played a crucial role in the development of artificial neural networks, which are today the dominant model in deep learning.

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the University of Montreal, founder and scientific director of Mila – the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence -, Yoshua Bengio Codirige The Program Automatic Learning, Biological Learning of CIFAR as senior fellowin addition to ensuring the scientific direction of Ivado, the Institute for Research and Transfer in Artificial Intelligence.

Winner of the Killam Prize in 2019, Yoshua Bengio was the most cited computer scientist in the world in 2022. Fellow From the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada, he is also a knight of the Legion of Honor and an officer of the Order of Canada. Since 2023, he has been sitting on the UN Consultative Scientific Council for the breakthroughs of science and technology and has a pulpit in IA Canada-Cifar. In 2024, the magazine Time Named it among the 100 most influential personalities on the planet. He directed the first international report on AI security, published in January.



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