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MIT Technology Review Reveals Annual Innovators Under 35 List
Cambridge, MA—August 18, 2015: Today, MIT Technology Review releases its annual list of Innovators Under 35 (www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35). Since 1999, the global media company has annually recognized exceptionally talented young technologists whose work illustrates the most important emerging technologies of the moment.
This year’s list features several people who are figuring out in detail how the brain works and how we might stave off mental disorders. Others are unearthing knowledge about cancer that might open new avenues for treatment. Innovators in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence are showcased, along with people who are cleverly taking advantage of the falling cost of sensors and bandwidth.
The 2015 List:
Biotechnology and Medicine
- Gozde Durmus Stanford University
- Gilad Evrony Harvard Medical School
- Cigall Kadoch Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
- Dena Marrinucci Epic Sciences
- Elizabeth Mormino Massachusetts General Hospital
- Rikky MullerCortera Neurotechnologies
- Rahul Panicker Embrace Innovations and Embrace Global
- Conor Walsh Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard
Computer and Electronics Hardware
- Yunji Chen Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Travis Deyle Google
- Rohan Paul IIT Delhi
- Benjamin Tee Privi Medical
- Melonee Wise Fetch Robotics
Energy
- Richard Lunt Michigan State University
- Aaswath Raman Stanford
Internet and Web
- Yevgen Borodin Stony Brook University
- Patrick Collison Cofounder and CEO, Stripe
- Zakir Durumeric University of Michigan
- Duygu Kayaman Microsoft
- Ben Rubin Meerkat
Nanotechnology and Materials
- Polina Anikeeva MIT
- Canan Dagdeviren Harvard and MIT
- Jeannette Garcia IBM
- Jun Ge Tsinghua University
- Zhen Gu University of North Carolina
- Michelle O’Malley University of California, Santa Barbara
Software
- Lars Blackmore SpaceX
- Adam Coates Baidu
- Lisa DeLuca IBM
- Jini Kim NunaHealth
- Jamie Shotton Microsoft Research
- Saurabh Srivastava Xerox India
- Rebecca Steorts Duke University
- Ilya Sutskever Google Brain research team
- Kevin Systrom Instagram
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 Sept. 1. They will also appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference, to be held Nov. 2–4 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (www.EmTechMIT.com).