Meeting point of the world's top names
The award honors breakthrough inventions and technologies that contribute to improving the quality of life of millions of people around the world and promoting the development of many industries and services of great significance to humanity.
The 4th VinFuture Prize ceremony gathered hundreds of the world's most outstanding "brains" in key fields and contributed to shaping the future development of the world, such as materials science, artificial intelligence, medicine, environmental research... Among them, there are many researchers who are the owners of prestigious international awards, such as Nobel, Millennium Technology, Turing... and the owners of VinFuture Prizes in previous seasons.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the VinFuture Prize 2024, Professor Richard Henry Friend - Chairman of the VinFuture Prize Council - said that the breakthrough scientific and technical works of the VinFuture Prize winners have had a profound impact on global development. It is the crystallization of the tireless efforts of mankind.
Catch up, keep up, break through and surpass
Speaking at the award ceremony, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that VinFuture 2024 is an important event, continuing to honor breakthrough research and inventions with far-reaching impacts, helping humanity overcome difficulties and reach new heights.
“We are very pleased that VinFuture Science Week 2024 and today's Award Ceremony bring together the "elite" and "giants" of world science with outstanding scientific achievements, especially the 4 honored scientific works" - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized.
According to Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, science, technology and innovation are the shortest and most effective ways for us to break through, reach far, fly high, and integrate in the development process, making the world and humanity better, more prosperous and happier.
Vietnam always pays special attention to science, technology and innovation, considering this an objective requirement, a strategic choice, a top priority and a national policy to promote rapid and sustainable development in the new era - the era of national prosperity and prosperity, as General Secretary To Lam has directed.
“Vietnam is committed to creating the most favorable conditions for scientists, science, technology and innovation to shine and develop strongly. With the spirit of “harmonious benefits and shared risks”, Vietnam always welcomes and encourages scientists, the business community and investors to realize their ideas, opportunities and investment projects in Vietnam” - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed.
At the ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh awarded the VinFuture Prize 2024 to five scientists, including: Professor Yoshua Bengio (Canada), Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton (Canada), Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang (USA), Professor Yann LeCun (USA) and Professor Fei-Fei Li (USA) for their groundbreaking contributions to promoting the advancement of deep learning.
The main prize was awarded for groundbreaking contributions to advancing the advancement of deep learning, which has ushered in a new era of technological innovation that enables machines to “learn” from massive amounts of data and achieve incredible accuracy in tasks such as image recognition, natural language processing, and decision making.
In addition to the Main Prize, VinFuture 2024 also awards 3 Special Prizes to scientists researching new fields, female scientists and scientists from developing countries.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for scientists from developing countries was awarded to Bangladeshi PhD Firdausi Qadri for her work "Innovation and improvement of oral cholera vaccines in developing countries", aiming to end the global cholera epidemic.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for female scientists was awarded to Professor Kristi Anseth - a scientist from the US for making advances in polymer material design and methods for biomedical applications.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for scientists researching new fields was awarded to Professor Zelig Eshhar (Israel), Professor Carl H. June (USA) and Professor Michel Sadelain (USA) for their work developing CAR-T cell therapy to treat cancer and other diseases.
