Find out about the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
Open call for the 18th Edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
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In the Information and Communication Technologies category
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Anil Jain and Michael I. Jordan for core contributions in machine learning that have powered the development of biometrics and artificial intelligence
In the Biology and Biomedicine category
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the four researchers who laid the biological foundations for the treatment revolution in diabetes and obesity
For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences goes to Daron Acemoglu, winner of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2016
For computational protein design and protein structure prediction
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, winners of the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine in 2023
For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
The Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to Geoffrey Hinton, Frontiers of Knowledge laureate in 2016
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Biology and Biomedicine
Dario Alessi
Director of the MCR Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit in the College of Life Sciences at Dundee University (United Kingdom)
María José Alonso Fernández
Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology. University of Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Lélia Delamarre
Director and Distinguished Scientist, Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech (United States)
Robin Lovell-Badge, CBE
Principal Group Leader and Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute (United Kingdom)
Óscar Marín
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at the King’s College London (United Kingdom)
Ursula Ravens
Professor Emerita in the Carl Gustav Carus School of Medicine at the Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
Ali Shilatifard
Robert Francis Furchgott Professor of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (United States)
Bruce Whitelaw
Director of the Roslin Institute at University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
Information and Communication Technologies
Ron Ho
Corporate Vice President, R&D Hardware. Lattice Semiconductor. United States
Oussama Khatib
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University (United States)
Rudolf Kruse
Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg (Germany)
Mario Piattini
Professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Daniela Rus
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. United States
Bernhard Schölkopf
Scientific Director of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Director of the Empirical Inference Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Germany
Alicia Troncoso
President of the Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial. Professor and Head of the Data Science and Big Data Lab at Pablo de Olavide University. Spain
Joos Vandewalle
Honorary President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Belgium)
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