Awards & Recognition
★Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025) - global prize for engineering innovation
★VinFuture Grand Prize (2024) for transformational advances in deep learning
★Intel Lifetime Achievements Award (2023)
★IEEE PAMI Thomas Huang Memorial Prize (2022)
★National Geographic Society Further Award (2019)
★IAPR J.K. Aggarwal Prize (2016)
★Named Global Thinker by Foreign Policy (2015)
★Alfred Sloan Faculty Award (2011)
★Member of National Academy of Engineering (2020)
★Member of National Academy of Medicine (2020)
★American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021)
Notable Facts
→Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
→Co-Director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
→Creator of ImageNet dataset that enabled deep learning revolution
→Former Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud
→Co-founder and CEO of World Labs (raised $1B+ in funding)
→Board member at Twitter/X (2020-2022)
→Delivered TED talk viewed over 2 million times
→Author of bestselling book 'The Worlds I See' (2023)
→Over 300 peer-reviewed publications with 342,829+ citations
→Co-founded AI4ALL nonprofit for diversity in AI
→Advisor to UN Secretary General on AI policy
→Congressional testimony on AI ethics and policy