We are honored to announce the winners of the NAAI Distinguished AI Scholar Award for the year 2025. This award aims to recognize scholars worldwide who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of artificial intelligence and related areas, covering multiple research directions such as computer science, machine learning, robotics, ethics, and mathematical theory.
After a rigorous nomination and evaluation process, a total of 44 outstanding scholars from different regions such as Europe, America, Asia, and Australia have been awarded this honor, demonstrating the global influence of artificial intelligence research. The following is the complete list of winners arranged alphabetically by surname:
The list of 44 award-winning scholars for the 2025 NAAI Distinguished AI Scholar Award
1. D. P. Kothari
VIT University， India
2. Danilo Pietro Pau
STMicroelectronics， Italy
3. Demetri Terzopoulos
UCLA， America
4. Diane J. Litman
University of Pittsburgh， America
5. Dinesh C. Verma
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, America
6. Elizabeth Shriberg
Ellipsis Health， America
7. Eric L. Miller
Tufts University， America
8. Eugene A. Feinberg
Stony Brook University， America
9. Ethem Alpaydın
Bo ğ azi ç i University, Türkiye
10. Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
Ryerson University， Canada
11. Frédéric Dufaux
Universit é Paris Saclay, France
12. Gitta Kutyniok
Technical University of Munich， Germany
13. Giovanni E. Corazza
University of Bologna， Italy
14. Giuseppe Buja
University of Padua， Italy
15. Habib Zaidi
University of Geneva， Switzerland
16. Hamid Reza Karimi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
17. Haruki Ueno
Tokyo Institute of Technology， Japan
18. Hesham A. Rakha
Virginia Tech， America
19. Hervé Panetto
University of Lorraine， France
20. J. Joshua Yang
University of Massachusetts Amherst， America
21. Jack Xin
University of California, Irvine， America
22. James C. Bezdek
University of Melbourne， Australia
23. James Kwok
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology，
24. James Lam
The University of Hong Kong，
25. Jan S. Hesthaven
É cole Polytechnique F é d é rale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland
26. Jan Peters
Technical University of Darmstadt， Germany
27. Janaka Ekanayake
University of Peradeniya， Sri Lanka
28. Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences， Poland
29. Jason Nieh
Columbia University， America
30. Jean-Bernard Lasserre
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS， France
31. Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Institut Pasteur， France
32. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
Sorbonne University， France
33. Jim Woodcock
University of York， Britain
34. João Paulo Papa
S ã o Paulo State University, Brazil
35. John K. Antonio
University of Oklahoma， America
36. Philip H. S. Torr
University of Oxford， Britain
37. Shuo Yen Robert Li
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China， China
38. Tara Sainath
Google Research， America
39. Laurence T. Yang
Zhengzhou University， China
40. Yixin Zhong
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications， China
41. Jie Li
Shanghai Jiaotong University， China
42. Huiyu Zhou
University of Leicester， Britain
43. Xiao-Jun Wu
Jiangnan University， China
44. Daniel J. Rosenkrantz
University at Albany, State University of New York， America
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We warmly congratulate all the award-winning scholars! Their research achievements have driven progress in the field of artificial intelligence and have had a profound impact on both academia and industry.
Distinguished AI Scholar Award Jury
May 2025