Announcement of the winners of the NAAI AI Exploration Award for the year 2025

Dear colleagues in the academic community and friends from all walks of life:

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the NAAI AI Exploration Award for 2025 have been officially announced! This award aims to recognize experts and scholars who have made outstanding explorations and contributions in the field of artificial intelligence worldwide, and to promote innovation and development of artificial intelligence technology.

After rigorous evaluation, a total of 17 outstanding scholars from around the world have been awarded this honor in this session. They have demonstrated the top level of academia and industry through their outstanding research achievements and cutting-edge explorations in the field of artificial intelligence. The following is the list of winners (sorted by certificate number):

1. Ion Stoica - University of California, Berkeley (USA, West Coast)

2. Julia Hirschberg - Columbia University (USA)

3. Elizer Upfal - Brown University (USA)

4. Amit Sahai - University of California, Los Angeles (USA, West Coast)

5. Anima Anandkumar - California Institute of Technology (West Coast, USA)

6. Pingyi Fan - Tsinghua University (Asia)

7. Nanning Zheng - Xi'an Jiaotong University (Asia)

8. Yi Ma - University of Hong Kong (Asia)

9. Cewu Lu - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Asia)

10. A. N. Rajagopalan - Indian University of Technology (Asia)

11. Ashish Ghosh - Indian Institute of Statistics (Asia)

12. Maja Pantic - Imperial College London (Europe)

13. Michael Bronstein - Oxford University (Europe)

14. Zoubin Ghahramani - Cambridge University (Europe)

15. Bernhard Sch ö lkopf - University of T ü bingen (Europe)

16. Grégoire Gelenbe - King's College London (Europe)

17.Anthony G. Cohn - University of Leeds (Europe)

We warmly congratulate all the winners! Their outstanding contributions have not only propelled progress in the field of artificial intelligence, but also injected new vitality into global technological development. NAAI will continue to pay attention to and support innovative explorations in the field of artificial intelligence, and looks forward to working with more scholars in the future to jointly create a new chapter in intelligent technology.

NAAI Artificial Intelligence Exploration Award Organizing Committee

June 2025