The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 Technology Review

Technology Review

Technology Review is a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as "The Technology Review", and was re-launched without the "The" in its name on April 23, 1998 under then publisher R. Bruce Journey...

 magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page

Larry Page

Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. As of April 4, 2011, he is also the chief executive of Google, as announced on January 20, 2011...

 and Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....

 (founders of Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

), Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...

 (creator of Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

), Jerry Yang (co-founder of Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

), Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive

Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...

 (designer of the iMac

IMac

The iMac is a range of all-in-one Macintosh desktop computers built by Apple. It has been the primary part of Apple's consumer desktop offerings since its introduction in 1998, and has evolved through five distinct forms....

, and later the iPod

IPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...

 and iPad

IPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...

), Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...

 (creator of Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

), Evan Williams (co-founder of Blogger

Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish...

), Jack Dorsey (creator of Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

), Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...

 (co-founder of Netscape

Netscape

Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for Netscape Navigator, its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California...

), Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...

 (creator of Napster

Napster

Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...

), Max Levchin

Max Levchin

Max Rafael Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one of the co-founders and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal....

 (co-founder of Paypal

PayPal

PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....

), and Konstantin Novoselov

Konstantin Novoselov

Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov FRS is a Russo-British physicist, most notably known for his works on graphene together with Andre Geim, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is currently a member of the mesoscopic physics research group at the University of Manchester as...

 (graphene

Graphene

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. The term graphene was coined as a combination of graphite and the suffix -ene by Hanns-Peter Boehm, who described single-layer...

 pioneer and later Nobel Laureate in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

).
The award was started in 1999 as the TR100, with 100 winners, but was changed to 35 winners starting in 2005. The awards are presented to the winners at the annual Emtech

Emtech

The Emtech conference, produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine, is an annual conference highlighting invention and new developments in engineering and technology...

 conference on emerging technologies, held in the fall at MIT, where there is an awards ceremony and reception. There are several regional TR35 lists produced by Technology Review also, such as the list of the top 35 innovators under 35 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. The regional winners are then considered as candidates for the global list.

The subcategories for the awards change from year to year, but generally focus on biomedicine

Biomedicine

Biomedicine is a branch of medical science that applies biological and other natural-science principles to clinical practice,. Biomedicine, i.e. medical research, involves the study of physiological processes with methods from biology, chemistry and physics. Approaches range from understanding...

, computing

Computing

Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...

, communications, business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

, energy

Energy

In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems...

, materials, and the web

Web

- Biology :* Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for trapping prey* Interdigital webbing, skin membranes between the digits of semiaquatic mamma- Computing :...

. Nominations are sent from around the world and evaluated by a panel of expert judges in various technological and scientific areas. In some years, an Innovator of the Year or a Humanitarian of the Year is also named from among the winners.

The stated purpose of the award is to honor "accomplishments that are poised to have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it."

Biomedicine

• Kristi Anseth
  Kristi Anseth
  Kristi Anseth is a professor of chemical and biological engineering and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has pioneered the use of photopolymerization and hydrogels for tissue engineering of cartilage among other tissues.Kristi Anseth grew up in...
  
  
• Adam P. Arkin
• James Collins
  James Collins (Boston University)
  James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator...
  
  
• Sandro de Souza
• Tejal A. Desai
  Tejal A. Desai
  Tejal Ashwin Desai is a Professor in Physiology, Division of Bioengineering at University of California, San Francisco and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She was formerly an associate professor at Boston University and an assistant professor at University of...
  
  
• Daniel DiLorenzo
  Daniel DiLorenzo
  Daniel John DiLorenzo is a medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist. He is the inventor of several technologies for the treatment of neurological disease and is the founder of several companies which are developing technologies to treat epilepsy and other medical diseases and improve the...
  
  
• John Dobak

• Pehr Harbury
  Pehr Harbury
  Pehr A. B. Harbury is an American biochemist, and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University.He is a native of Menlo Park.He graduated from Harvard University with a BA, and from Harvard Medical School, with a Ph.D...
  
  
• Patrick Jensen
• Bruce Lahn
  Bruce Lahn
  Bruce Lahn is a geneticist at the University of Chicago. He is also the founder of the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. His previous research specialized in human genetics and evolutionary genetics, especially human sex chromosome...
  
  
• Christopher Lee
• Samir Mitragotri
  Samir Mitragotri
  Samir Mitragotri is a Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He is a researcher in the field of drug delivery and biomaterials....
  
  
• David Mott
• Nikola Pavletich

• Mark Prausnitz
• Carmichael Roberts
• Peter Seeberger
• Matthew Shair
• Dari Shalon
• Jason Shear
• Erik Winfree
  Erik Winfree
  Erik Winfree is an American computer scientist, bioengineer, and associate professor at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher into DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology....
  
  

Computing

• Marc Andreessen
  Marc Andreessen
  Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...
  
  
• Sabeer Bhatia
  Sabeer Bhatia
  Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.- Background :...
  
  
• Amy Bruckman
• Sky Dayton
  Sky Dayton
  Sky Dylan Dayton is an American entrepreneur.Dayton is the founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, founder and chairman of Boingo.-Early life:...
  
  
• Roy Thomas Fielding
• Peter Girardi
• Jonathan Heiliger
• Katherine Isbister
  Katherine Isbister
  Katherine Isbister is a game and human computer interaction researcher and designer, currently an Associate Professor at New York University's Polytechnic Institute, with a joint appointment in Digital Media and in Computer Science and Engineering...
  
  

• Natalie Jeremijenko
  Natalie Jeremijenko
  Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology...
  
  
• Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
• Maja Kuzmanovic
• Come Lague
• Magdamena Mik
• Jonathan Nelson
• Michael Robertson
• John Romero
  John Romero
  Alfonso John Romero is a game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake...
  
  

• Andrew Shapiro
  Andrew Shapiro
  Shapiro was born in New York City and raised in Larchmont, New York. He studied musical composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio....
  
  
• Eric Silberstein
• Jagdeep Singh
• Alex Thompson
• Mike Volpi
  Mike Volpi
  Mike Volpi is a venture capitalist and partner at Index Ventures which he joined in 2009. He is best known for his leadership of Cisco’s business development efforts during the company’s prominent growth era.- Career :...
  
  
• Hakon Wium Lie
  Håkon Wium Lie
  Håkon Wium Lie is a web pioneer, a standards activist, and, , the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software.He is best known for proposing the concept of Cascading Style Sheets while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994. As an employee at W3C, he developed CSS into a...
  
  
• Jerry Yang

Business

• Adam Beberg
• Paul Bender
• Bonnie Berger
• David Blundin
• Matthew Brand
• Eric Brewer
  Eric Brewer (computer scientist)
  Eric A. Brewer is the main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He was made a tenured professor at UC Berkeley at the age of 32. In 1996, Brewer co-founded Inktomi Corporation. He is known for...
  
  
• Mandy Chessell
• Isaac Chuang
  Isaac Chuang
  Isaac L. Chuang currently leads the quanta research group at the Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT. He received his undergraduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering and masters in electrical engineering at MIT. In 1997 he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford...
  
  
• David Clemmer
• Geoffrey Coates
• Christopher Cummins
• Miguel de Icaza
  Miguel de Icaza
  Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects.-Early years:Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his...
  
  
• Michael Deem
  Michael W. Deem
  Michael Deem is the John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic Engineering and Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is known for his work in parallel tempering and proposals to improve vaccine development by estimating the antigenic "distance" for any two...
  
  
• Gregg Favalora
• Yoel Fink
• Amy Francetic
• Eric Freeman
  Eric Freeman (writer)
  Eric Freeman is a computer scientist, author and constituent of David Gelernter on the Lifestreaming concept.-Authored works:Eric Freeman has publishing accolades for Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML which he co-authored with Elisabeth Freeman, and Head First Design Patterns also co-authored with...
  
  
• David Gee
• Isy Goldwasser

• Amit Goyal
  Amit Goyal
  Dr. Amit Goyal is a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. He is also the chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council. He is one of the leading researchers in the field of High...
  
  
• Helen Greiner
  Helen Greiner
  Helen Greiner is the co-founder of iRobot and currently CEO of CyPhyWorks.-Career:Helen Greiner holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in computer science, both from MIT...
  
  
• Joseph M. Hellerstein
  Joseph M. Hellerstein
  Joseph M. Hellerstein is professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on database systems and computer networks...
  
  
• Nicola Hill
• Michael Acheson Isard
• Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan Ive
  Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...
  
  
• Joseph Jacobson
  Joseph Jacobson
  Joseph Jacobson, a native and resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is a tenured professor and head of the Molecular Machines group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab...
  
  
• Christina Jones
• Steve Jurvetson
  Steve Jurvetson
  Steven T. "Steve" Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson . He was a Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana...
  
  
• Frederick Kish
• Christopher Klaus
• Paul Kocher
  Paul Kocher
  Paul Carl Kocher is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, Inc....
  
  
• Steven Leeb
• Hideo Mabuchi
  Hideo Mabuchi
  Hideo Mabuchi is an American physicist. He is Department Chair and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, and the boss of the Mabuchi Lab....
  
  
• Akhil Madhani
• Shoko Manako
• Maja Mataric
  Maja Mataric
  Maja Mataric is a professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include social robotics in particular the interaction between robots and people and between groups of robots themselves. In 1999 she was listed in the MIT Technology...
  
  
• Mike McCue
  Mike McCue
  Mike McCue is a successful internet entrepreneur and a founder of Paper Software, Tellme Networks and Flipboard. Since December 2010 he has been a director of Twitter....
  
  
• Todd C. Mowry

• Christopher Murray
• Dianne Newman
• Thomas Pinckney
• John Rogers
• Lynn Russell
• Lawrence Saul
• Christopher J. Savoie
• Michael J. Saylor
  Michael J. Saylor
  Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, and co-founder of MicroStrategy, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence , enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP software. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive...
  
  
• Daniel P. Schrag
  Daniel P. Schrag
  Daniel P. Schrag is Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Director of the University Center for the Environment, and Director of the Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography at Harvard University. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe...
  
  
• Christine Smith
• Thad Starner
  Thad Starner
  Thad Eugene Starner is a founder and director of the Contextual Computing Group at Georgia Tech's College of Computing, where he is an Associate Professor, and one of the pioneers of wearable computing as well as human-computer interaction, augmented environments, and pattern recognition...
  
  
• Wim Sweldens
• Ralph Taylor-Smith
• Linus Torvalds
  Linus Torvalds
  Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
  
  
• Stephanie Vierkotter
• Ken-Tsung Wong
• Mark Yim
• Jackie Ying

Biomedicine

• Ewan Birney
  Ewan Birney
  Ewan Birney is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute and joint head of the Protein And Nucleic Acids group with Rolf Apweiler. The PANDA group is responsible for the widely used Ensembl genome browser, and highly-cited research on, for example, sequence analysis tools...
  
  
• Stephen Boppart
• Fiona Brinkman
  Fiona Brinkman
  Fiona Brinkman is an Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, and is a leader in the area of pathogen bioinformatics....
  
  
• Stephen Brossette
• Chris Burge
• Benjamin Cravatt
• Nathaniel David
  Nathaniel David
  Nathaniel David , is an American scientist and entrepreneur, who co-founded a series of technology companies in the biotechnology and sustainable energy sectors, including Syrrx , Achaogen, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Sapphire Energy and Kilimanjaro Energy...
  
  
• Jennifer Elisseeff
• Susan Hagness
• Derek Hansford

• John Harrington
• Suzie Hwang Pun
• J. Joseph Kim
• Steven Laken
• Corrinna E. Lathan
• Kelvin Lee
• Surya Mallapragada
• Sean J. Morrison
  Sean J. Morrison
  Sean J. Morrison is the Mary McDermott Cook Chair in Pediatric Genetics and professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he directs the Children's Research Institute...
  
  
• Milan Mrksich
• Stephen OConnor

• Alexander Olek
• Vijay Pande
• Stephen Quake
• David Sabatini
• John Santini
• David Schaffer
• Kevin Shakesheff
• Vivek Subramanian
• Christoph Westphal
  Christoph Westphal
  Christoph Westphal, M.D., Ph.D., co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in 2004 with David Sinclair and served as Chief Executive Officer until April 2010. Dr...
  
  

Computing

• Richard Barton
• Sergey Brin
  Sergey Brin
  Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion....
  
  
• John Carmack
• Josh Coates
• Paul Debevec
  Paul Debevec
  Paul Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work in high dynamic range imaging and image-based modelling and rendering....
  
  
• Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning
  Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
  
  
• Justin Frankel
  Justin Frankel
  Justin Frankel is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the gnutella peer-to-peer network...
  
  
• Vinay Gidwaney
• Robert Guttman

• Ramesh Hariharan
• Maria Hershenson
• Travis Kalanick
• Lydia Kavraki
  Lydia Kavraki
  Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and a professor of bioengineering at Rice University and a professor of structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine...
  
  
• Reiner Kraft
• Raymond Lau
• Max Levchin
  Max Levchin
  Max Rafael Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur widely known as one of the co-founders and for his role as the former chief technology officer of PayPal....
  
  
• Pamela Lipson
• Rob Malda
  Rob Malda
  Rob Malda , also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School....
  
  

• Steve McCanne
• Lou Montulli
  Lou Montulli
  Louis J. Montulli II is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas...
  
  
• Kazuho Oku
• Larry Page
  Larry Page
  Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. As of April 4, 2011, he is also the chief executive of Google, as announced on January 20, 2011...
  
  
• Joseph Reagle
• Tim Tuttle
• Susie Wee
• Ethan Zuckerman
  Ethan Zuckerman
  Ethan Zuckerman is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, officially starting in September 2011.Zuckerman was one of the first staff members of Tripod.com, one of the first successful "dot com" enterprises, and later founder of Geekcorps and Global Voices Online...
  
  

Materials

• Adekunle Adeyeye
• Doug Barlage
• Angela Belcher
  Angela Belcher
  Angela M. Belcher is a materials scientist, biological engineer, and W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.Belcher grew up in San...
  
  

• Mariangela Lisanti
• Jeffrey Long
• Scott Manalis

• Jan Hendrik Schön
  Jan Hendrik Schön
  The Schön scandal concerns German physicist Jan Hendrik Schön who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs with semiconductors that were later discovered to be fraudulent...
  
  
• Keith Schwab
  Keith Schwab
  Keith Schwab is an American physicist born in St. Louis, Missouri. His contributions are in the areas of nanoscience, ultra-low temperature physics, and quantum effects.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jun Ye

Business

• Christopher Ahlberg
  Christopher Ahlberg
  Christopher Ahlberg is a Swedish-born entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of Recorded Future. Ahlberg is also an independent director of Hult International Business School, sits on the board of Swedish software corporation Apptus AB, and holds a board seat...
  
  
• Andrew Barrows
• Elisabeth M. Belding-Royer
• Vincent Berger
• Eric Bonabeau
• Daniel Branagan
• Arnaud Brignon
• Joseph Cargnelli
• Howie Choset
  Howie Choset
  Howie Choset is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. His research includes snakebots, or robots designed in a segmented fashion to mimic snake-like actuation and motion, demining, and coverage...
  
  
• Michelle Effros
• Alexander Fay
• Claire Gmachl

• Michael Hansen
• Tom Hyongsok Soh
• Matt Keyser
• Kara Kockelman
• Paul Krajewski
• Christina Lampe-Onnerud
• Der-Horng Lee
• Andreas Lendlein
• Ihor Lys
• Larry Mianzo
• Chahab Nastar
• Bill Nguyen
  Bill Nguyen
  Bill Nguyen is a technology entrepreneur who founded Lala.com, Color, and Onebox.-Life:He grew up in Houston, the son of Vietnamese immigrants whom he says he consistently disappointed. They wanted him to score A's. Instead, he scored an unpredictable mix of A's and F's, and earned a 1.4 grade...
  
  

• Rajesh Reddy
• Vincent Rijmen
  Vincent Rijmen
  Vincent Rijmen is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijmen is also the co-designer of the WHIRLPOOL cryptographic hash function, and the block ciphers Anubis, KHAZAD, Square, NOEKEON and SHARK.In 1993, Rijmen obtained a degree...
  
  
• Jonathan Rosenberg
• Steven Shaw
• Anna Stefanopoulou
• Lisa Su
• Vahid Tarokh
  Vahid Tarokh
  Vahid Tarokh is an electrical engineer with contributions to telecommunication, specifically to signal processing for wireless communications.-Life:...
  
  
• Steve Tuecke
• Camille Utterback
  Camille Utterback
  Camille Utterback is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art.-Biography:...
  
  
• Les Welch
• Sean Willems
• Neil Young

Biomedicine

• Guillermo Ameer
• Helene Andersson
• Sangeeta Bhatia
• Alexis Borisy
• Eugene Chan
• Bassil Dahiyat
• Benjamin G. Davis
• Christophe Echeverri
• Michael E. Gertner
• Jay Groves

• Justin Hanes
• Andre Koltermann
• Erin Lavik
• Xiangjun Liu
• Anthony Lowman
• Gavin Macbeath
• Nimmi Ramanujam
• Shuvo Roy
  Shuvo Roy
  Shuvo Roy is a Bangladeshi American scientist and inventor of artificial kidney. -Education:* BS : Graduated Magna Cum Laude, with General Honors for triple majors in Physics, Mathematics , and Computer Science, University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, 1992.* MS : Electrical Engineering and...
  
  
• Ram Samudrala
  Ram Samudrala
  Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He researches protein and proteome folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution spanning atomic to organismal levels of description...
  
  
• Christophe Schilling

• Mark Schnitzer
  Mark Schnitzer
  Mark Schnitzer is an associate professor jointly in the biological sciences and applied physics departments at Stanford University. He has been named an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is a recipient of a Paul Allen grant...
  
  
• Mijail Serruya
• Micah Siegel
• Giovanni Traverso
• Rita Vanbever
• Ron Weiss
• Jennifer West
  Jennifer West
  Jennifer West is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She is known for her digitized films that are made by hand manipulating film celluloid. She has produced over 50 films since she started working this way in 2004...
  
  
• Daphne Zohar
  Daphne Zohar
  Daphne Zohar is an Israeli-American entrepreneur. She is the founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a venture creation firm that develops discoveries from academic labs into treatments for human health....
  
  

Computing

• John Apostolopoulos
• Brian Behlendorf
  Brian Behlendorf
  Brian Behlendorf is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache...
  
  
• Jud Bowman
• Lorrie Cranor
  Lorrie Cranor
  Lorrie Faith Cranor is the director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Engineering and Public...
  
  
• Jason Hill
• Meg Hourihan
  Meg Hourihan
  Meg Hourihan is the cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that launched the Blogger personal blogging software that was acquired by Google. She published weblogs at and...
  
  

• Paul Q. Judge
  Paul Q. Judge
  Paul Q. Judge is an award-winning technologist and speaker. Judge was a technical expert for the Federal Trade Commission in the 2005 Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act. In 2003, he founded the Anti-Spam Research Group in the Internet Research Task Force.-Biography:Judge...
  
  
• Rasmus Lerdorf
  Rasmus Lerdorf
  Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions...
  
  
• Lih Y. Lin
• Sanjay Parekh
  Sanjay Parekh
  Sanjay Parekh is the founder of Startup Gossip, Startup Riot, and Startup Dinner. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Coyote Point Systems and a co-founder of Shotput Ventures...
  
  
• Rueben Singh
• Martin Wattenberg
  Martin M. Wattenberg
  Martin M. Wattenberg is an American scientist and artist known for his work with data visualization. Along with Fernanda Viégas, he worked at the Cambridge location of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center as part of the Visual Communication Lab, and created Many Eyes...
  
  

• Andrew Wheeler
• Evan Williams
• Jennifer Yates
• Paul Meyer

Materials

• Scott Backhaus
• Zhenan Bao
• Marcela Bilek
• Daniel Bond
• Michael Bowman
• Colin Bulthaup
  Colin Bulthaup
  Colin Bulthaup is an American engineer and inventor, and a founder of Kovio, a company that is developing manufacturing techniques for semiconductors using printed nanoparticle ink. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT, where he developed the technology in use at Kovio...
  
  
• Karen Burg
• Xiangfeng Duan
• Stephen Empedocles
• Vladislav Gavrilets

• Scott Gaynor
• Cary Gunn
• Yu Huang
• Jordan Katrine
• Krishna Kumar
  Krishna Kumar
  Krishna Kumar is an Indian chemist whose research spans organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioorganic chemistry, biophysics and cell biology....
  
  
• David M. Lynn
• David A. Muller
• Yasunobu Nakamura
• Balaji Narasimhan
• Ravikanth Pappu

• Ainissa G. Ramirez
• Christian Rehtanz
• Manfred Stefener
• Claire Tomlin
• Stephen Turner
• S. Travis Waller
• Ralf Wehrspohn
• Peidong Yang
  Peidong Yang
  Peidong Yang is a Chinese American scientist, currently a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He is a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science. His research group studies the synthesis of nanomaterials and their electronic and optical properties...
  
  

Business

• Geoffrey Barrows
  Geoffrey Barrows
  Geoffrey Barrows is an American inventor and the founder of Centeye, a company that specializes in the development of insect vision for robotics. He holds a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical...
  
  
• Serafim Batzoglou
• Cynthia Breazeal
  Cynthia Breazeal
  Cynthia Lynn Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Laboratory...
  
  
• Ian Clarke
• Andre DeHon
• Daniel Gottesman
  Daniel Gottesman
  Daniel Gottesman is a physicist, known for his work regarding quantum error correction, in particular the invention of the stabilizer formalism for quantum error-correcting codes, and the Gottesman–Knill theorem...
  
  
• Kathryn Guarini
• Vic Gundotra
  Vic Gundotra
  Vivek "Vic" Gundotra , is Senior Vice-President of Social Business for Google and was previously a general manager at Microsoft.-Career:Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism...
  
  
• Andrew Heafitz
  Andrew Heafitz
  Andrew Heafitz is an American inventor and alumnus of MIT. He was awarded his first patent while a teenager for a camera shutter. He was a the founder of TacShot, a rocket-propelled camera capable of being quickly launched and deployed to photograph an area from overhead. He is currently the VP of...
  
  
• Steven Hofmeyr

• Mike Horton
• Ayanna M. Howard
  Ayanna M. Howard
  Ayanna MacCalla Howard is an American roboticist and an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. To date, her unique accomplishments have been documented in more than a dozen featured articles...
  
  
• Kevin Lee (scientist)
• Desmond Lim
• Michael OConnor
• Joe Pompei
  Joe Pompei
  Joe Pompei is an American inventor and the founder Holosonics, a company that has delivered techniques for precisely projecting sound using millimeter-wavelength sound waves using technology developed originally as part of his Ph.D. thesis at MIT. In 2003 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by...
  
  
• Jovan Popovic (scientist)
• Vipul Ved Prakash
  Vipul Ved Prakash
  Vipul Ved Prakash is a software engineer and entrepreneur, most widely known for creating Vipul's Razor, a collaborative anti-spam system. In 2001, Vipul co-founded Cloudmark, a company that...
  
  
• Thomas Reardon
• Torsten Reil

• Heike Riel
• Maximilian Riesenhuber
• Linda Rottenberg
  Linda Rottenberg
  Linda Rottenberg is CEO and Co-founder of Endeavor, an organization that pioneered the field of High-Impact Entrepreneurship. Endeavor’s mission is to “lead the global movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best High-Impact Entrepreneurs around...
  
  
• Ted Sargent
• Tim Sibley
• Alex Vasilescu
• Lorraine Wheeler
• Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Biomedicine

• Vadim Backman
• Yaakov Benenson
• Rebekah Drezek
• Ryan Egeland
• Michael Elowitz
  Michael Elowitz
  Michael B Elowitz is a biologist and professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Genius grant, better known as the MacArthur Fellows Program for the...
  
  
• Tim Gardner
• Colin Hill
  Colin Hill
  Colin Frederick Hill is a former Northern Irish professional football player most notable for his careers with Arsenal and Leicester City and as a Northern Ireland international....
  
  
• Shana Kelley
• Gloria Kolb

• Jörg Lahann
• Eric C. Leuthardt
• David Liu
• Frank Lyko
• Lauren Meyers
• Ananth Natarajan
• Vasilis Ntziachristos
• Shayn Peirce
• Cristoph Schaffrath

• Monisha Scott
• Vikram Sheel Kumar
• Christina Smolke
• Kahp-Yang Suh
• Olga Troyanskaya
  Olga Troyanskaya
  Olga Troyanskaya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University...
  
  
• Smruti Vidwans
• Lei Wang
• Sandra Waugh Ruggles
• Xiaowei Zhuang
  Xiaowei Zhuang
  Xiaowei Zhuang is an American biophysicist, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics, at Harvard University, and the Zhuang Research Lab.She is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute....
  
  

Computing

• Jonathan Abrams
• Guido Appenzeller
• Alyssa Apsel
  Alyssa Apsel
  Alyssa Apsel is an associate professor at Cornell University who specialize in RF and mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuit design. She holds a BS from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University. In 2004 she was named a "young innovator" by being included...
  
  
• Anuj Batra
  Anuj Batra
  Anuj Batra is a research electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who specializes in ultrawideband wireless technology. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech...
  
  
• Serge Belongie
• Vance Bjorn
• David Brussin
• J. J. Cadiz
• Tianqaio Chen
• Aref Chowdhury
• Raffaele Colombelli
• Adrian Colyer
• Robert Drost
  Robert Drost
  Robert Drost is an American computer scientist. He was born in 1970 in New York City.- Sun Microsystems:Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science...
  
  
• Robert Frederick
• Dan Gruhl

• Ali Hajimiri
  Ali Hajimiri
  Ali Hajimiri is an Iranian-American academic, inventor, and entrepreneur in the field of electrical engineering who currently holds the Thomas G. Myers chaired professorship of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology ....
  
  
• Scott Heiferman
  Scott Heiferman
  Scott Heiferman is CEO and a co-founder of Meetup, a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004...
  
  
• Michael Helmbrecht
• Aaron Hertzmann
• Kurt Huang
  Kurt Huang
  Kurt Huang is co-founder, president, and chief product officer of BitPass. He has a Computer Science degree from Harvard and an MD from Stanford.Named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review magazine....
  
  
• Ari Juels
• Richard Kent
• Andre Kulzer
• Golan Levin
  Golan Levin
  Golan Levin is an American new media artist, composer, performer and engineer interested in developing artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression.-Biography:...
  
  
• Massimo Marchiori
  Massimo Marchiori
  Massimo Marchiori is an Italian computer scientist who made major contributions to the development of the World Wide Web.-Biography:...
  
  
• Wojciech Matusik
• James O'Brien
  James F. O'Brien
  James F. O'Brien is a computer graphics researcher and associate professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.-Education:...
  
  
• Nuria Oliver
• Maria Petrucci-Samija
• Ramesh Raskar

• Jennifer Rexford
• Sokwoo Rhee
• Shad Roundy
• Jesse Schell
  Jesse Schell
  Jesse Schell is a professor of entertainment technology and game design at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center , a joint master's program between the College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Career:After graduating from the...
  
  
• Kees Schep
• Chaitail Sengupta
• Pierre Sillard
• Simeon Simeonov
• Charlotte Skourup
• Benjamin Trott
  Benjamin Trott
  Benjamin Trott, born , is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. In November 2010, he became Chief Technical Officer of , a new online advertising and software company formed by a merger of ad network VideoEgg with Six Apart.Before joining SAY Media, Trott was also CTO of...
  
  
• Mena Trott
• Srinidhi Varadarajan
  Srinidhi Varadarajan
  Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of the Terascale Computing Facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He joined the Department of Computer Science in August 1999. His research interests are in the area of high performance computer systems...
  
  
• Min Wu
• Qian Zhang

Materials

• Marcel Bruchez
• Vladimir Bulovic
• Mayank Bulsara
• Dustin Carr
• Selena Chan
• Martin Colpepper
• Yi Cui
• Lætitia Delmau
• Martha Gardner
• Verena Graf

• Yu Han
• Stefan Hecht
  Stefan Hecht
  Stefan Hecht is a German chemist, working in the area of functional nanostructures. He is currently full professor at Humboldt University of Berlin and holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials at the Department of Chemistry....
  
  
• Darrell Irvine
• Rustem Ismagilov
• Albena Ivanisevic
• Ravi Kane
• Kinneret Keren
• Jamie Link
• Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
• Tyler McQuade

• Teri Odom
• Leroy Ohlsen
• Erik Scher
• Molly Stevens
• Michael Strano
• William Taylor
• Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
• Shu Yang
  Shu Yang
  Shu Yang, born 1969, China, A Chinese painter, performance artist, photographer and curator. After studying at Xian Academy of Fine Art, he moved to Beijing where, in collaboration with Chinese artist Zhu Ming and Chen Jin, he set up the first performance art festival in China known as the Open Art...
  
  
• Yuankai Zheng

Biomedicine

• Thijn Brummelkamp
  Thijn Brummelkamp
  Thijn Brummelkamp is currently a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical research. He joined the Whitehead Institute in 2004.He received his MS in Biology at the Free University in Amsterdam, Following which, he went on to the Netherlands Cancer Institute for his graduate research and...
  
  
• Martha Bulyk
• Matthew DeLisa
• Kevin Eggan
  Kevin Eggan
  Kevin Eggan is Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, known for his work in stem cell research , and as a spokesperson for stem cell research in the United States. He was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
  
  

• Paul Hergenrother
• Trey Ideker
  Trey Ideker
  Trey Ideker is the Chief of Genetics at University of California San Diego and studies genomics using network models. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Bioinformatics and PLoS Computational Biology. He was awarded the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology in...
  
  
• Hang Lu
  Hang Lu
  Hang Lu is currently a Professor of Chemical and Molecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs a research group on the use of microfluidics devices engineered to aid in the study of questions in the biological sciences.Dr...
  
  
• Melissa Mahoney

• Daniel Riskin
• Shiladitya Sengupta

Computing

• Parham Aarabi
  Parham Aarabi
  -Career:Aarabi is a professor at University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Internet Video, Audio, and Image Search. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is the inventor of numerous patents and author of over 80 publications most of which focus on audio,...
  
  
• Regina Barzilay
• Stewart Butterfield
  Stewart Butterfield
  Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr and its parent company Ludicorp with then-wife Caterina Fake. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr until he...
  
  
• George Candea

• Bryan Cantrill
  Bryan Cantrill
  Bryan M. Cantrill is an engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition by Sun. He left Oracle on July 25, 2010 to become the Vice President of Engineering at Joyent....
  
  
• Andy Carvin
  Andy Carvin
  Andy Carvin is National Public Radio's senior product manager for online communities. Carvin was the founding editor and former coordinator of the Digital Divide Network, an online community of more than 10,000 Internet activists in over 140 countries working to bridge the digital divide...
  
  
• Narashima Chari
• Bram Cohen
  Bram Cohen
  Bram Cohen is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent...
  
  

• Dennis Crowley
  Dennis Crowley
  Dennis Crowley is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.-Education:...
  
  
• Tracey Ho
• Samuel Madden
• David Pennock

Materials

• Vladimir Aksyuk
• Helen Blackwell

• Jia Chen
  Jia Chen
  Dr. Jia Chen is currently Director of Technical Sales & Innovation for IBM’s Growth Market Units, based in Shanghai, China. Dr. Chen has leadership for technical sales team across all IBM's sectors for Greater China Group, ASEAN, Australia/New Zealand, Korea, India, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle...
  
  
• Anita Goel
  Anita Goel
  Anita Goel Hindi:अनीता गोयल is a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States. She is notable for her research at the nano-bio level, particularly for the study of molecular mechanics behind the reading and writing of information in DNA....
  
  

• Saul Griffith
  Saul Griffith
  Saul Griffith is an Australian American inventor. He is best known for his inexpensive technique for making prescription eyeglasses. This method uses two flexible surfaces and a pourable resin.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Francesco Stellacci

Business

• Katrine Hilmen
• Yael Maguire
• Rajit Manohar

• Matthew Rabinowitz
• Adam Rasheed
• Adam Stubblefield

• Haitao Zheng

Biomedicine

• Jeffrey Bode
• Edward Boyden
  Edward Boyden
  Ed Boyden is a neuroscientist at MIT. He is a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is recognized for his work on optogenetics, a technology that he co-invented with Karl Deisseroth at Stanford University...
  
  
• Utkan Demirci
  Utkan Demirci
  Utkan Demirci is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. In 2006, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.-...
  
  

• Manolis Kellis
• Liam Paninski
• Jay Shendure

• Alice Y. Ting
  Alice Y. Ting
  Alice Yen-Ping Ting is a professor of bio-organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Alice Ting was born in Taiwan and emigrated to the United States when she was three years old. She was raised in Texas and attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science . She received...
  
  
• Christopher Voigt
  Christopher Voigt
  Christopher Voigt is an American synthetic biologist, molecular biophysicist, and engineer. He is currently an Associate Professor in the of the with appointments in the and the graduate student programs. His research interests focus on the reprogramming of bacterial organisms to perform...
  
  

Computing

• Roger Dingledine
• Jason Fried
• Matthew Herren

• Eddie Kohler
• Joshua Napoli
• Nikos Paragios
  Nikos Paragios
  Nikos Paragios was born at Rhodes, Greece in 1972.He is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Ecole Centrale Paris. He is also affiliated with INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, the French Research Institute in Informatics and Control. His main research interest are medical imaging,...
  
  

• Paul Rademacher
• Joshua Schachter
  Joshua Schachter
  Joshua Schachter is the creator of Delicious, creator of GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. He has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh....
  
  
• Ben Zhao

Materials

• Song Jin
• William King
• Stéphanie Lacour

• Ling Liao
• Ashok Maliakal
• Marin Soljacic
  Marin Soljacic
  Marin Soljačić is a Croatian physicist and electrical engineer known for wireless non-radiative energy transfer.-Biography:...
  
  

• Michael Wong

Business

• Apostolos Argyris
• Prithwish Basu
  Prithwish Basu
  Prithwish Basu is an Indian-American engineer and innovator in the field of mobile ad-hoc wireless networks. He is currently an engineer at BBN networks. In 2006 he was recognized as a young innovator by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list....
  
  
• Seth Coe-Sullivan
• Stefan Duma

• Christina Galitsky
• Ram K. Krishnamurthy
• Jane McGonigal
  Jane McGonigal
  Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. is a game designer, games researcher, and author, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games ....
  
  
• Michael Raab

• Anand Raghunathan
• Sumeet Singh
• Paris Smaragdis

Biomedicine

• J. Christopher Anderson
• Ali Khademhosseini
  Ali Khademhosseini
  Ali Khademhosseini is an Iranian-Canadian academic and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. He is internationally known for his research in the area of biomedical...
  
  
• Christopher Loose
• Kristala Jones Prather

• Neil Renninger
• Shetal Shah
• Abraham Stroock
• Doris Tsao

• Lili Yang
• Mehmet Yanik

Computing

• Sanjit Biswas
  Sanjit Biswas
  Sanjit Biswas is co-founder of Meraki, Inc. He and John Bicket started the company based on their work on Roofnet project as part of at MIT.Biswas has a bachelor's degree from Stanford and a master's degree from MIT....
  
  
• Josh Bongard
  Josh Bongard
  Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland...
  
  
• Garrett Camp
• Mung Chiang
• Tadayoshi Kohno
• Tariq Krim

• Ivan Krstic
  Ivan Krstić
  Ivan Krstić is a Croatian computer security expert, currently working on core security at Apple Inc. Krstić was previously the director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child. He is a co-author of The Official Ubuntu Book ....
  
  
• Jeff LaPorte
• Karen Liu
• Anna Lysyanskaya
• Tapan Parikh
• Babak Parviz

• Partha Ranganathan
• Kevin Rose
  Kevin Rose
  Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk...
  
  
• Marc Sciamanna
• Desney Tan
  Desney Tan
  Desney Tan is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and the manager of the Computation User Experiences group. Tan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under the advisorship of Randy Pausch. He was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's 2007 Young...
  
  
• Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn
  Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009...
  
  
• Mark Zuckerberg
  Mark Zuckerberg
  Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president...
  
  

Materials

• Erik Bakkers

• Adam Cohen
  Adam Cohen (scientist)
  Adam Ezra Cohen is Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Biology and of Physics at Harvard University.He has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and been selected by MIT Technology Review to the TR35 list of the world's top innovators under...
  
  

• Ju Li

Energy

• David Berry
  David Berry (inventor)
  David Berry, M.D., PhD., is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is a Partner at Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA. Berry is founder and CEO of Essentient, a company founded in 2009 to transform global nutrition .-Early life and...
  
  
• Javier García-Martínez

• Rachel Segalman

• Xudong Wang

Biomedicine

• Martin Burke
• Christopher Chang
  Christopher Chang
  Christopher J. Chang is a chemist at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, a recipient of several young scientist awards for his research in bioinorganic chemistry, molecular and chemical biology....
  
  
• Michelle Chang
  Michelle Chang
  Michelle C. Y. Chang is a chemist at the department of chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, a recipient of several young scientist awards for her research in biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.-Education:...
  
  

• Donhee Ham
• Konrad Hochedlinger
• Milica Radisic

• Bilal Shafi
• Joo Chuan Tong

Computing

• Blaise Agüera y Arcas
  Blaise Agüera y Arcas
  Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a software architect, designer, and imagery expert. As of 2010, he is the architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile.He founded Seadragon Software in 2003, which was acquired by Microsoft Live Labs in 2006...
  
  
• Dries Buytaert
  Dries Buytaert
  Dries Buytaert is an open-source software programmer notable as founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS.- Career :...
  
  
• Jenova Chen
  Jenova Chen
  Xinghan Chen , known as Jenova Chen, is the designer of the award-winning games Cloud, Flow, and Flower, and is co-founder of Thatgamecompany. Chen is from Shanghai, where he earned a bachelors degree in computer science and a minor in digital art and design...
  
  
• Tanzeem Choudhury
• Jack Dorsey
• Stefanus Du Toit
  Stefanus Du Toit
  Stefanus Du Toit is a Canadian inventor and entrepreneur and a co-founder of Waterloo-based RapidMind, a company specializing in the development of software that automatically parallelizes serial code. The technology behind Rapidmind was developed by Du Toit during his graduate research at the...
  
  

• Seth Hallem
• Xian-Sheng Hua
• Sundar Iyer
• Farinaz Koushanfar
• Johnny Lee
  Johnny Lee (computer scientist)
  Johnny Chung Lee is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher currently working at Google. Lee is best known for his work on Kinect development, extending the functionality of the Wii Remote controller of the Wii video game console, most notably by taking advantage of its high resolution IR...
  
  
• Meredith Ringel Morris

• Andrew Ng
  Andrew Ng
  Andrew Ng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. His work is primarily in machine learning and robotics. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and finished his postdoctoral research in the University of California, Berkeley, where he...
  
  
• Adam Smith
• JB Straubel
  JB Straubel
  JB Straubel is part of the founding team and the Chief Technical Officer of Tesla Motors, an electric car company based in San Carlos, California. At Tesla, Straubel oversees the technical and engineering design of the vehicles...
  
  
• Eric Wilhelm
• Robert Wood
  Robert Wood (roboticist)
  Robert Wood is a roboticist and an assistant professor of electrical engineering and of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, and is the director of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley...
  
  

Materials

• Nicholas Fang
• Julia Greer

• Hossam Haick
• Jeffrey Karp

• Kostya Novoselov
• Aimee Rose

Energy

• Theodore Betley
• Peter L. Corsell

• Ric Fulop

• Ronggui Yang

Biomedicine

• Jorge Conde
• José Gómez-Márquez
• Michelle Khine
  Michelle Khine
  Michelle Khine, Ph.D. is a distinguished scientist and innovator at the University of California, Irvine, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fluxion Biosciences Inc., the scientific founder of the Shrink nano-technology platform, as well as the Assistant and Founding Professor of the School of...
  
  

• Erez Lieberman Aiden
• Andrew Lynn

• Ellis Meng
• C. Shad Thaxton

Communications

• Nathan Eagle
  Nathan Eagle
  Nathan Eagle is an American technology executive and one of the world's leading mobile phone developers. He currently is co-founder and CEO of Jana , a Boston-based company that engages more than two billion consumers in emerging markets...
  
  

• Shwetak Patel
  Shwetak Patel
  Shwetak Naran Patel is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his work on developing novel sensing solutions and ubiquitous computing. He is an assistant professor at the University of Washington in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, where he joined in 2008...
  
  

• Ashoke Ravi

Computing

• Adam Dunkels
  Adam Dunkels
  Adam Dunkels, Ph.D., is a Swedish software engineer, researcher and co-founder of the Networked Embedded Systems Group at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Kista, Sweden. His research is mainly focused on networking technology and distributed communication for small embedded devices and...
  
  
• Kevin Fu
• Andrew Houck
• Shahram Izadi

• Anat Levin
• Pranav Mistry
  Pranav Mistry
  Pranav Mistry is one of the inventors of SixthSense. He is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. He received Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He has completed...
  
  
• Aydogan Ozcan
• Vera Sazonova

• Dawn Song
  Dawn Song
  Dawn Song is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Andrea Thomaz
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Energy

• Cody Friesen
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• Andrew Perlman

• Cyrus Wadia
  Cyrus Wadia
  Cyrus Wadia is a Senior Policy Analyst with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy . Wadia is on leave from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds a dual appointment as Faculty & Co-Director of...
  
  

Materials

• Andrea Armani
• James Carey
  James Carey (scientist)
  James Carey is an American inventor and entrepreneur and the founder of SiOnyx, a company that fabricates sensitive light detectors using "black silicon", a material he discovered while a graduate student at Harvard University. He holds a BS from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Applied...
  
  

• Ranjan Dash
  Ranjan Dash
  Dr. Ranjan Dash is an Indian Industrialist. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Y-Carbon, a materials science company located at Philadelphia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ali Javey

• Elena Shevchenko

Web

• Michael Backes
• Jeffrey Bigham

• Jeffrey Heer
• Vik Singh
  Vik Singh
  Vik Singh is currently an Entrepreneur In Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures.Previously, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! Search BOSS, an open web search platform...
  
  

• Jaime Teevan
  Jaime Teevan
  Jaime Teevan is a researcher at Microsoft Research. She was named a Technology Review 2009 Young Innovator for her research on personalized search...
  
  

Biomedicine

• Jacob Hanna
• Philip Low

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• Celeste Nelson

• Mikhail Shapiro
• Samuel Sia

Communications

• Ranveer Chandra

• Gabriel Charlet

• Amir Alexander Hasson
  Amir Alexander Hasson
  Amir Alexander Hasson is a social entrepreneur and the founder of United Villages, an organization specializing in the deployment and usage of wireless networks, including cell phone networks, to rural areas of India through local shop owners. These networks have been used to provide supply...
  
  

Computing

• Aaron Dollar
  Aaron Dollar
  Aaron Dollar is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University, where he conducts research on techniques to make a flexible robotic hand. In 2010 he was recognized as an innovator by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.- External links :* *...
  
  
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• Kim Hazelwood

• Indrani Medhi
• Andrey Rybalchenko
• T. Scott Saponas

• Jian Sun
• Richard Tibbetts

Energy

• David Bradwell
• Hany Eitouni
  Hany Eitouni
  Hany Eitouni is an American innovator and entrepreneur, and a cofounder of Berkeley, CA based Seeo, a company commercializing a novel battery technology utilizing solid polymers. In 2010 he was recognized by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.- External links :* *...
  
  

• Peter Meinhold
• Jochen Mundinger
  Jochen Mundinger
  Jochen Mundinger is an entrepreneur and a founder of RouteRank, a company that allows users to search for travel itineraries with a smaller carbon footprint. In 2010 Mundinger was recognized by being included in the MIT Technology Reviews TR35 list....
  
  

• Lyndon Rive
  Lyndon Rive
  Lyndon Rive is a green energy leader and CEO of SolarCity. He has trumpeted SolarCity's use of First Solar panels for residential and business installations since the beginning of 2009. Rive has also said that residential and small business customers will turn to branded installation companies...
  
  
• Chris Rivest
  Chris Rivest
  Chris Rivest is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of SunPrint , a company that develops technology to inexpensively fabricate solar cells using acoustic printing...
  
  

Materials

• Alán Aspuru-Guzik
• Conor Madigan

• Michael McAlpine
  Michael McAlpine
  Michael McAlpine is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University, where he conducts research on materials capable of generating power from human motion. He holds a BS from Brown University, an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in the subject of chemistry...
  
  

• Michelle Povinelli

Web

• danah boyd
  Danah Boyd
  danah boyd also known as Danah Michele Boyd, is an American social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of social networking sites by youth...
  
  
• Wesley Chan
  Wesley Chan
  Wesley Chan is an early employee at Google Inc. and is currently an investment partner at Google Ventures, the financial investment fund of the global search company. He has led investments in and sits on the Board of Directors of software/web startups, cleantech companies, and biotech...
  
  
• Nick Feamster

• David Karp
  David Karp (entrepreneur)
  David Karp is an entrepreneur living in New York City. He is the founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. In 2010, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.-Early life and education:Karp grew up on the Upper...
  
  
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• Kati London
• Avi Muchnick

Biomedicine

• Yemi Adesokan
• Miriah Meyer

• Andrew Phillips
  Andrew Phillips
  Andrew Phillips is a historian from the ancient borough of Colchester in Essex in the East of England. He is a former lecturer in history at the Colchester Institute...
  
  
• Ben Rubin
  Ben Rubin
  This article is about the pro Magic player. For the inventor of the bifurcated needle, see Benjamin Rubin.Ben Rubin is an American Magic: The Gathering player. Formerly a pro player he is now considered to be retired from professional play...
  
  

• Paul Wicks
• Fan Yang
  Fan Yang
  Fan Yang is a Canadian bubble artist. He was born in Vietnam in 1962, his mother is a Haiphong native. He has earned international acclaim as a result of his complex displays of bubble theater. In addition to performing he has developed his own bubble solution formulas and equipment to create...
  
  

Communications

• Bhaskar Krishnamachari

• Ajit Narayanan

• Umar Saif
  Umar Saif
  Umar Saif is a Pakistani computer scientist and entrepreneur, who is known for his work on using ICT solutions for developing-world problems. Saif holds a BSc. from the Lahore University of Management Sciences and PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, where he was a Commonwealth...
  
  

Computing

• Pieter Abbeel
• June Andronick
• Jernej Barbič
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• Brian Gerkey
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• Aishwarya Ratan
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Energy

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Materials

• Solomon Assefa
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• Alexandra Boltasseva
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• Dae-Hyeong Kim
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Web

• Judd Antin
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• Andrew Mason
  Andrew Mason
  Andrew Mason was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who played for Herefordshire. He was born in Worcester....
  
  
• Chris Poole
  Christopher Poole
  Christopher Poole is an American internet entrepreneur from New York City, noted for founding the websites 4chan and Canvas. He originally started 4chan anonymously, under the pseudonym moot .-Impact and activity:...
  
  

• Jesse Robbins

External links

• TR35 official site at Technology Review
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