Free public access
IAENG Laureate and
Distinguished Scientist Summit
2025
17-20 February, 2025
Princeton & New York, USA & Virtual Online
IAENG Summit 2025 is organized by the IMECS, WCE &
WCECE committees of the International Association of
Engineers for the exceptionally distinguished computer
scientists. For reference, the total number of co-
chairs and committee members of our association exceeds
one thousand, while the total number of our IAENG
ordinary members exceeds 210,000.
Professor Yoshua Bengio and Professor Yann LeCun are
the two Laureates of the Co-Founders of Deep Learning
Award. Professor John J. Hopfield is the Laureate of
the Founder of Associative Neural Network Award.
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IAENG Summit 2025
February 20, 2025 11:00am (America Eastern Time Zone)
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
IAENG Founder of Associative Neural Network Award:
Professor John J. Hopfield
Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences
Princeton University
Founder of Associative Neural Network
Laureate of 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics
2001 Dirac Medallist by ICTP on behalf of UNESCO and
IAEA
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
February 20, 2025 2:00pm (America Eastern Time Zone)
Meta Office, New York, NY, USA
IAENG Co-Founders of Deep Learning Award 2023
Professor Yann LeCun
Professor at New York University
Vice President and Chief AI Scientist at Meta
(Facebook)
Laureate of 2018 A.M. Turing Award (often referred to
as the "Nobel Prize of Computing")
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award
(Interpretable Machine Learning)
Professor Cynthia D. Rudin
Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science
Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Statistical Science, Mathematics, and Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Principal Investigator, Interpretable Machine Learning Laboratory
Duke University
Laureate of 2022 AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for
the Benefit of Humanity
Fellow, ASA, IMS, and AAAI
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award
(Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering)
Professor Fengqi You
Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering
Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Chair of Ph.D. Studies in Systems Engineering
Co-Director of the Cornell University AI for Science Institute
Director of the Cornell AI for Sustainability Initiative
Cornell University
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and AAAS
Laureate of 2024 Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical
Engineering
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award
(Machine Learning and Medicine)
Professor Robert Grossman
Frederick H. Rawson Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine, Computer
Science
Jim and Karen Frank Director, Center for Translational Data Science
Chief, Section of Biomedical Data Science, Department of Medicine
Chief Research Informatics Officer, Biological Sciences Division
University of Chicago
Founder and Chair of the not-for-profit Open Commons Consortium
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award
(Deep Learning and Biomedical Imaging):
Professor Erik Meijering
Professor of Biomedical Image Computing
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (since 2004)
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award
(High Performance Computing)
Professor Craig C. Douglas
School of Energy Resources Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
University of Wyoming
Former Senior Research Scientist, Yale University
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Young Distinguished Scientist
Award (Foundational Artificial Intelligence)
Professor Benjamin Guedj
Research Director, Inria, France
Professor of Machine Learning and Foundational Artificial Intelligence
University College London
Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
Scientific Director, The Inria London Programme
Appointed Young Leader of the Franco-British Council
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Young Distinguished Scientist
Award (Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence):
Prof. Stefano Ermon
Principal Investigator, Ermon Group
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University
Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
ISSNAF Young Investigator Award 2020
AFOSR Young Investigator Award 2018
AWS Machine Learning Research Award
Sony Faculty Innovation Award
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Young Distinguished Scientist
Award (Machine Learning and Neural Network):
Prof. Tongliang Liu
Director of Sydney AI Centre
Deputy Associate Head of School (Research)
ARC Future Fellow; ARC DECRA Fellow
The University of Sydney, Australia
Award for Outstanding Research Contribution -CORE 2024
IEEE AI's 10 to Watch Award -IEEE 2023
Early Career Research Excellence –Faculty of Engineering, University of
Sydney 2021
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
International Association of Engineers Emerging Scientist Award (Machine
Learning and Neural Networks)
Prof. Blake Richards
Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Montreal Neurological
Institute
Principal Investigator, The Learning in Neural Circuits Laboratory
McGill University
Core Faculty Member, Mila -Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Recipient of the 2022 NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship, the 2019
Canadian Association for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, and the
2018 CIFAR Canada AI Chair
IAENG Laureates and Distinguished
Scientists
