MIT Technology Review Announces Annual Innovators Under 35 List

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Aug 23, 2016, 08:35 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, MIT Technology Review releases its annual list of Innovators Under 35 (http://www.technologyreview.com/innovatorsunder35). The people in our 16th annual celebration of young innovators are disrupters and dreamers. They're inquisitive and persistent, inspired and inspiring. No matter whether they're pursuing medical breakthroughs, refashioning energy technologies, making computers more useful, or engineering cooler electronic devices—and regardless of whether they are heading startups, working in big companies, or doing research in academic labs—they all are poised to be leaders in their fields.

Hundreds of people were nominated for this group. After MIT Technology Review's editors narrowed the list, outside judges evaluated the quality and potential impact of the finalists' work, guiding the selections you'll find here.

The 2016 List:

Biotechnology & Medicine
Muyinatu Bell	Johns Hopkins University
Heather Bowerman	Serona
Jagdish Chaturvedi	InnAccel
Kevin Esvelt	MIT Media Lab
Kelly Gardner	Bio-Techne
Evan Macosko	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Sonia Vallabh	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Computer & Electronics Hardware
Nora Ayanian	University of Southern California
Adam Bry	Skydio
Jonathan Downey	Airware
Meron Gribetz	Meta
Jiawei Gu	Baidu
Alex Hegyi	PARC, a Xerox Company
Samay Kohli	GreyOrange
Sergey Levine	UC Berkeley
Desmond Loke	Singapore University of Technology and Design
Jean Yang	CMU

Energy
Vivian Ferry	University of Minnesota
Kendra Kuhl	Opus 12
Kelly Sanders	University of Southern California
Aleksandra Vojvodic	SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis
Jia Zhu	Nanjing University

Internet & Web
Stephanie Lampkin	Blendoor
Evan Spiegel	Snapchat

Nanotechnology & Materials
Qing Cao	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Ying Diao	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion
Wei Gao	UC Berkeley
Christine Ho	Imprint Energy
Yihui Zhang	Tsinghua University

Software
Ehsan Hoque	University of Rochester
Maithilee Kunda	Vanderbilt University
Ari Roisman	Glide
Ronaldo Tenório	Hand Talk
Oriol Vinyals	Google DeepMind

Telecommunications
Dinesh Bharadia	Stanford University

The selection process begins with hundreds of nominations from the public, MIT Technology Review editors, and international partners who publish Innovators Under 35 lists in their regions. The editors pare the list to about 80 people, who submit descriptions of their work and letters of reference. Then outside judges rate the finalists on the originality and impact of their work; that feedback helps the editors choose this group.

This year's honorees will be featured online at technologyreview.com starting today, and in the September/October print magazine, which hits newsstands worldwide on August 30. They will also appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference, to be held October 18–20 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (www.EmTechMIT.com).

About MIT Technology Review
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