VinFuture Prize
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Awarded forScientist
Sponsored byVingroup
DateDecember 20, 2020 (2020-12-20)
Country Vietnam, international
Websitevinfutureprize.org

VinFuture Prize is a set of 4 annual international science and technology prizes established on 20 December 2020, the first nomination and award in 2021, managed by the VinFuture Foundation.

Prizes edit

Prize set includes 1 main and 3 other special prizes.

  1. VinFuture Grand Prize worth 70 billion VND, equivalent to US$3 million, is one of the largest global scale science and technology awards until the end of 2020.[1]
    1. Special VinFuture Prize for authors of research or inventions from developing countries.[2]
    2. Special VinFuture Prize for a female author of research or invention.[2][3]
    3. Special VinFuture Prize for pioneering research or invention authors in new fields

Awards Council edit

 
Dr. P. Anandan
 
J. T. Chayes
 
Pascale Cossart
  1. Padmanabhan Anandan director of Wadhwani Artificial Intelligence Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra,India, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University
  2. Jennifer Tour Chayes Director of the Microsoft Research Center, Vice Chancellor of the School of Computer, Data Science and Society, University of California at Berkeley
  3. Pascale Cossart bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute
  4. Dang Van Chi, Program on Cell and Molecular Cancer, Wistar Cancer Center
  5. Richard Henry Friend - Cavendish Physics Professor at Cambridge University and the National University of Singapore, chairman of the scientific advisory board of the National Research Foundation of Singapore
  6. Xuedong David Huang Engineering Fellow and Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Azure
  7. Gérard Albert Mourou French Polytechnic University, University of Michigan
  8. Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov University of Manchester, National University of Singapore
  9. Michael Eugene Porter Harvard University
  10. Leslie Valiant Gabrial Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
  11. Vu Ha Van is professor of mathematics at Yale University

Advisory Council edit

  1. Vu Ha Van Chairman of the Advisory Council for Science and Technology of VinBigdata Big Data Research Institute
  2. Nguyen Thuc Quyen is director and professor at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, and professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry of the University of California in Santa Barbara

History edit

Vingroup announcement VinFuture Prize on December 20, 2020[4] and opened for nominations from June 7th, 2021 in February 3rd 2021.[5]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ MINH KHÔI (2020-12-21). "Hội đồng Giải thưởng toàn cầu VinFuture giá trị lớn nhất thế giới gồm những ai?". VTC. Retrieved 2021-01-11. "Quỹ VinFuture nhằm tổ chức Giải thưởng khoa học và công nghệ quốc tế (VinFuture) đầu tiên do người Việt Nam khởi xướng và là một trong những giải thưởng thường niên có giá trị lớn nhất thế giới"
  2. ^ a b VG (2020-12-20). "Công bố giải thưởng toàn cầu VinFuture". VG. Retrieved 2021-01-13. "tạo ra những thay đổi tích cực trong cuộc sống hàng ngày của hàng triệu người trên Trái Đất bằng việc thúc đẩy nghiên cứu khoa học và đổi mới công nghệ"
  3. ^ Trường Thịnh (2020-12-24). "Tại sao các nhà bác học nói Giải thưởng VinFuture "đặc biệt" dù ra đời muộn?". Dân trí. Retrieved 2021-01-11. "Tôi rất cảm động khi thấy VinFuture là cầu nối để phụ nữ, nhà khoa học trẻ từ các nước đang phát triển chinh phục lĩnh vực khoa học, công nghệ. Tôi tin VinFuture sẽ vươn tới quy mô và tầm vóc vĩ đại"
  4. ^ VinFuture Prize Official Announcement 20 December 2020
  5. ^ VinFuture Prize Officially Opens for Nominations 03 February 2021

External links edit


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