MIT Technology Review Reveals Annual Innovators Under 35 List

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Aug 19, 2014, 08:45 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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 has great potential to transform the world.

"Over the years, we've had success in choosing young innovators whose work has been profoundly influential on the direction of human affairs," says Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher. "Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the cofounders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, the cofounder of Facebook; Jonathan Ive, the chief designer of Apple; and David Karp, the creator of Tumblr. We're proud of our selections and the variety of achievements they celebrate."

The 2014 List:

Biotechnology and Medicine
1. Emily Balskus	Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
2. Duygu Kuzum	Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
3. Megan McCain	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
4. Maria Nunes Pereira	Head of Adhesive Technologies, Gecko Biomedical
5. Maryam Shanechi	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
6. Kay Tye	Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT
7. Jonathan Viventi	Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering
8. Kathryn Whitehead	Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
9. Rumi Chunara	Instructor, Harvard Medical School
10. Manu Prakash	Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Computer and Electronics Hardware
11. Ayah Bdeir	Founder and CEO, littleBits
12. Palmer Luckey	Founder, Oculus VR
13. Fadel Adib	Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT CSAIL
14. David He	Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer, Quanttus
15. Jinha Lee	Senior Software Engineer and Head of Interactive Visualization Lab, Samsung Electronics
16. Julie Shah	Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Leader, CSAIL Interactive Robotics Group, MIT
Energy
17. Miles Barr	Cofounder and CEO, Ubiquitous Energy Inc.
18. George Ban-Weiss	Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California
19. Tanuja Ganu	Technical Staff Member, IBM - India Research Laboratory
20. Hui Wu	Associate Professor, Tsinghua University School of Materials Science & Engineering
21. Sarah Kearney	Executive Director, PRIME Coalition
Internet and Web
22. Aaron Levie	Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Box
23. Alex Ljung	Founder, CEO and Managing Director, Soundcloud
24. Bret Taylor	Founder and CEO, Quip
25. Kuang Chen	Founder and CEO, Captricity
26. Santiago Villegas Giraldo	CEO, AliadosWeb/Online Safety Project
27. Severin Hacker	Cofounder and CEO, Duolingo
Nanotechnology and Materials
28. Emily Cole	Cofounder and Chief Science Officer, Liquid Light
29. Tak Sing Wong	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
30. Guihua Yu	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Software
31. Rand Hindi	Founder and CEO, Snips
32. Michael Schmidt	Founder and CEO, Nutonian Inc.
33. Shyam Gollakota	Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Leader, Networks and Wireless Group, University of Washington
34. Quoc Le	Research Scientist, Google Brain
Telecommunications
35. Kurtis Heimerl	Founder and CEO, Endaga

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. 2. They will also appear in person at the upcoming EmTech MIT conference, to be held from Sept. 23–25 in Cambridge, Mass. (www.EmTechMIT.com).

About MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review leads the global conversation about technologies that matter. An independent media company owned by MIT, it produces publications read by millions of business leaders, innovators, and thought leaders around the globe, in six languages and on a variety of platforms. The company publishes MIT Technology Review magazine, the most respected technology magazine; daily news features, analysis, and opinion; and Business Reports, which explain how technologies are transforming industries. It produces live events such as the annual EmTech MIT, international EmTech conferences, Summits, and Salons. The company's entrepreneurial community organization, MIT Enterprise Forum, informs, connects, and coaches early-stage technology entrepreneurs so they may succeed faster.

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