Yann LeCun Awarded the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

February 6, 2025

Yann LeCun, Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, has received the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in recognition of his contributions to Modern Machine Learning. 

Now in its 12th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize has honored 24 engineers whose innovations have had a significant impact on billions of lives around the world. Professor LeCun and his colleagues—Université de Montréal’s Yoshua Bengio, the University of Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton, and Princeton University’s John Hopfield—were cited by the foundation for “championing artificial neural networks, which are now the dominant model for machine learning. Their groundbreaking research laid the conceptual foundations for this transformative approach, enabling machines to process and learn from vast amounts of data in ways previously unimaginable.”

The announcement ceremony took place on February 4th at the London Science Museum; the prize ceremony will be held this coming fall. You can read more about this honor here.