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).
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