NVIDIA founder and chief executive Jensen Huang and chief scientist Bill Dally were honored with the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for foundational work in artificial intelligence and modern machine learning. The award, presented by His Majesty King Charles III at St James’s Palace, named Huang and Dally among seven laureates recognized for pioneering the GPU architectures and accelerated computing that power today’s large-scale model training and high-performance simulations.
The prize citation highlighted their leadership and vision in developing a platform that reshaped the computer industry across chips, systems, algorithms, and applications. Huang described the moment as part of a sweeping transformation in computing, equating artificial intelligence to essential infrastructure on the scale of electricity and the internet. Dally emphasized decades of progress in parallel computing and stream processing and said engineering methods continue to refine hardware and software so artificial intelligence can empower people to achieve more.
Earlier on the day of the award the pair attended a roundtable at 10 Downing Street with secretary of state for science, technology and innovation Liz Kendall and minister for science, research, innovation and nuclear Lord Patrick Vallance to discuss inspiring future engineers. The meeting marked National Engineering Day and underscored NVIDIA’s collaboration with the U.K. government, universities and industry to expand computing infrastructure, research and skills. In a separate distinction, Huang received the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship at the Cambridge Union, presented by Lucy Hawking, where he addressed an audience and took part in a fireside chat about advancing science and inspiring the next generation of technologists.
