Awards
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Sandford Fleming Medal2025
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (jointly with Bill Dally, Fei-Fei Li, John Hopfield, Jensen Huang, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio)2025
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The Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with John Hopfield)2024
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The Vinfuture Grand Prize (jointly with Jensen Huang, Fei-Fei Li, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun)2024
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The Ulysses Medal, University College Dublin2024
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The Golden Goose Award2024
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The Royal Medal of the Royal Society2022
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The Princess of Asturias Award (jointly with Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun)2022
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The Honda Prize2019
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Toronto Region Builder Award2019
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The ACM A. M. Turing Award (jointly with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun)2018
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Companion of the Order of Canada (Canada’s highest honour)2018
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award2017
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The NEC C&C Award2016
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IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Gold Medal2016
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IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Medal2014
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Killam Prize in Engineering2012
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Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal2010
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IJCAI Research Excellence Award2005
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The David E. Rumelhart Prize2001
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IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award1998
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ITAC/NSERC Award for Academic Excellence1992
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IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Award1990
Fellowships
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Honorary Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering2026
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Honorary Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences2023
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Honorary Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering2016
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Honorary Foreign Member of the Spanish Real Academia de Ingenieria2015
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Distinguished Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research2014
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Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2003
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Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society2003
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Fellow of the Royal Society1998
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada1996
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Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence1991
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Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1987-1998; 2004-2014)1987