The future of technology lies in youth.
Since 1999, MIT Technology Review has annually selected scientific and technological innovation leaders under the age of 35 (35 under 35 scientific and technological innovation, referred to as TR35) around the world, and today, the scope has covered many cutting-edge disciplines and scientific fields such as biomedical technology, energy materials, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and communications, and intelligent manufacturing.
This world-renowned talent evaluation system aims to find young workers engaged in innovative technology research and development, technology application and business development. Among them are not only innovative Pioneers and Inventors, but also visionaries, pioneering entrepreneurs, and humanitarians.
Over the past two decades, many of the unfamiliar names who were once selected have grown into industry leaders, such as bioimaging pioneer Zhuang Xiaowei, Google founder Larry Page (Larry Page), Sergey Brin, Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, CRISPR gene editing technology inventor Zhang Feng, and Baidu former chief scientist Andrew Ng and others.
In 2010, TR35 launched its first regional selection and now reaches several countries and regions in Asia, Europe and Latin America. In 2017, MIT Technology Review and DeepTech landed "35 Scientific and Technological Innovation People Under 35" in China, forming a new China Selection (TR35 China), hoping to discover more emerging forces that are rapidly rising in the field of science and technology in China, and give them more attention and support.
By 2022, TR35 China has been successfully held for six times and has identified 210 innovative and pioneering young science and technology leaders (for details, see: 2022 winners, 2021 winners, 2020 winners, 2019 winners, 2018 winners, 2017 winners), and discovered more than 100 world-class breakthrough research results, which have been widely recognized by the industry and the scientific community. This list will not only bring together China's most promising young scientists and technologists who have the potential to change the way humans live, but also show the development direction and business trends of future science and technology.
In 2023, the 7th MIT Technology Review "35 Under 35 Scientific and Technological Innovation 35" China will continue to look for explorers and practitioners who continue to make breakthroughs and innovations in major scientific research fields, and define the future with their new discoveries and achievements.
MIT Technology Review China welcomes qualified young talents to apply (see the end of the article for registration methods), and we look forward to your nomination.
Of course, since landing in China in 2017, the TR35 China selection has also been supported by many authoritative figures in the professional field at home and abroad. These authorities, including scientists, business leaders, investors, etc., formed the TR35 China Review Committee to participate in the review activities.
Up to now, this year's selection has been supported by more than 20 super heavyweight expert judges, and the first list is as follows (*The following rankings are in no particular order):
Diana Boraschi, academician of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), academician of the Accademia Dei Fisiocritici Institute in Italy, top Italian scientists and member of the Top Women Scientists Club, won the Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2022. He is currently an outstanding professor at the School of Pharmacy, Shenzhen University of Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the chief scientist of the Polymer Drug Research Center of the Institute of Medicine, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has served as Director and Director of Research at IBP Branch, Member Director of the Frontier Science in Humanity Programme in Strasbourg, France, Alternate Representative of Italian Excellence in Science of the European Commission, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI), External Review Expert for European Commission Research Programmes FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, HE, EDCTP1, EDCTP2, National Medical Council of Singapore and National Science Foundation of the United States. Professor Diana Boraschi is an internationally renowned immunologist, focusing on the mechanism of the natural immune system, with a particular focus on the role of macrophages and inflammatory factors in anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer processes, as well as vaccine adjuvants and their safety, mainly focusing on the interleukin receptor IL-1R family and corresponding cytokines (IL-1 and IL-18). She has been engaged in natural immunity and inflammation research for more than 40 years, and has published more than 220 peer-reviewed research papers in the field of immunology, including Nature, Science, Nature Immunology, PNAS, JEM, Blood, Science Translational Medicine, etc., with an H-index of 63, more than 14300 citations, authored or co-edited 24 books, and is the author of 92 books with 8 invention patents, and more than 100 monographs. For his great contribution to the transformation of scientific research, he has twice won the Italian Federchimica Award.
Professor Cui Yi, academician of the National Academy of Sciences, is currently the Fortinet Founders Tenured Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Energy Science and Engineering of Stanford University, a world-renowned materials and energy scientist, the first Chinese director of the Precourt Energy Institute of Stanford University, the first director of the sustainable development acceleration period, the deputy editor of the well-known scientific journal "Nano Express", the co-director of the Bay Area PV Alliance and the co-director of the Battery 500 Alliance. Professor Cui conducts research in nanotechnology, new materials, new energy, environmental protection and biological sciences. His published scientific papers have a citation index of more than 250 H-index (Google). In 2014, he was named the world's number one materials scientist by Reuters. His three different technologies (2016 New Cooling Fabric, 2014 New Thermal Battery, 2010 Nano Electric Shock Sterilization) have been named one of Scientific American's "Top 10 World-Changing Technologies" three times. He has received numerous awards for outstanding research achievements, including the Global Energy Award (2021), the Lawrence Award, one of the highest awards of the U.S. Department of Energy (2021), the Materials Society Medal of America, one of the highest awards in the materials community, the Blavatnik National Medal in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020, the Electrochemical Society Fellow in 2018, the Materials Society of America in 2016, and the Materials Society in 2015 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was named the World's Top Young Inventor Award in 2004. Professor Cui currently applies for more than 50 patents in the United States, and founded Amprius in Silicon Valley in 2008, producing the world's most energy-dense lithium battery, which is widely used in consumer electronics, drones and electric vehicles. Amprius is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2022. In 2015, Professor Cui co-founded 4C Air in Silicon Valley with former U.S. Secretary of Energy and 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics Professor Steven Chu (now a professor in physics at Stanford University) to industrialize their breakthrough technology dedicated to the filtration of clean air for the purification of particulate matter such as PM2.5 and the new coronavirus. In 2017, Professor Cui founded EEnotech Technology Holdings to industrialize many of his other technologies. In 2020, he founded EnerVenue to industrialize his breakthrough energy storage technology metal-hydrogen cells for solar, wind, and grid energy storage. In 2021, he founded LifeLabs Design to industrialize his hot and cold fabric technology. In 2022, he founded EnnoPure, a company that merged with GWT, a general water purification company, to industrialize his water filtration technology.
Professor Liming Dai is a National Research Council Laureate Professor of Australia, a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Graphene Science and Innovation. Professor Dai was Professor Kent Hale Smith of Case Western Reserve University, is currently an associate editor of Nano Energy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the American Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences. Professor Dai has long been engaged in the research of functional polymers, carbon nanomaterials, energy and biomedicine, and has achieved a series of innovative research results in the fields of synthesis and assembly of carbon nanotubes and graphene, functionalization, device manufacturing and their application in energy.
Zaiping Guo, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the University of Adelaide, Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong, was invited to serve as Associate Editor of Chemical Science, the flagship journal of RSC Press. Professor Guo Zaiping's research group is mainly engaged in the research of energy storage materials, and is committed to exploring low-consumption and high-efficiency ways to synthesize secondary battery electrode materials, develop the next generation of high-performance batteries, and solve key problems in rechargeable batteries and other energy storage devices. Her research has received numerous awards, including the Queen Elizabeth II Scholar of the Australian Research Council (2010), the Futurist (2015), the Laureate Scholar (2021), and the NSW Premier Award (2020).
Li Xuelong is a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University and director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China. He has long been engaged in the basic theory and cross-application research of artificial intelligence, especially in the field of intelligent image processing and multimodal learning. Pay attention to talent training, science, technology and engineering issues in the local security system.
Liu Ming, Professor of Fudan University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries; IEEE Fellow。 He has long been engaged in research in the field of microelectronics science and technology, and his research interests include new memory, new computing, integrated chips, etc.
Luo Huiqian is a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a popular science writer. Mainly engaged in the experimental research of neutron scattering of associated electronic materials, he has published more than 160 papers. He has been funded by the Outstanding Member of the Youth Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Senior Scholar of Emperor Newton, the Beijing Outstanding Youth and the National Excellent Youth Scholar. He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as The Innovation, Science China, Physica Scripta, Physics, and Modern Physics Knowledge. Popular science masterpieces include "Superconductivity "Small Era"", "Footprints of Physics", "100,000 Whys (Sixth Edition)" and so on.
Ouyang Minggao, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Energy Engineering of the Technical University of Denmark in 1993, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of Tsinghua University, founding editor of eTransporation, an international journal of transportation electrification, and the first chairman of the International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. He has been engaged in the research of new energy power system and transportation electrification for a long time, and served as the chief expert of the national new energy vehicle science and technology project from 2007 to 2021. It has successively achieved a series of scientific research achievements in hybrid and electronic control systems, fuel cell and hydrogen energy systems, power batteries and energy storage systems, vehicle-network interaction and smart energy systems, and has promoted and applied economic benefits of more than 10 billion yuan. Won 10 domestic and foreign science and technology awards. Incubated 20 student start-up enterprises, including listed companies on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. He has published more than 350 academic papers in SCI, cited more than 20,000 times, H factor 88, and 5 times selected as Clarivate Global Highly Cited Scientists.
Professor Qiao Shizhang is currently a Chair Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia, the Founding Director of the Centre for Energy and Catalytic Materials, and an Australian Research Council Industrial Laureate Professor and Australian Laureate Scholar. Mainly engaged in the research of new energy technology, including batteries, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, fuel cells, etc. He has published more than 520 academic papers in top international journals, cited more than 98,050/113,010 times, and has an h-index of 161/172 (Web of Sci/Google Scholar). Professor Qiao Shizhang has received a number of important awards and accolades, including the 2021 South Australian Scientist of the Year Award. Professor Qiao is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the International Society of Chemical Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of EES Catalysis, an international journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a highly cited scientist in the three fields of Clarivate/Thomson Reuters chemistry, materials science and environmental ecology (120 highly cited papers in the past decade).
Dr. Qiu Lili is currently the Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, mainly responsible for the research work of Microsoft Research Asia (Shanghai) and the cooperation with industry, academia and research circles. She received her master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Cornell University. She was a researcher in the Systems and Networks Group at Microsoft Redmond Research from 2001 to 2004. In 2005, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and was later promoted to tenured full professor and doctoral supervisor for her outstanding achievements in the field of Internet and wireless networks. Dr. Qiu is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI Fellow), an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. She also chairs the International Computer Society Committee on Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM SIGMOBILE). Dr. Qiu has received many honors such as the ACM Distinguished Scientist and the NSF CAREER award.
Shi Yuanchun is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, and has been teaching in the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University since 1993, his research directions include human-computer interaction, human-computer hybrid intelligence, ubicomputing, multimedia, network education technology, etc., and his papers have been published in top journals such as CHI, UIST, Ubicomp, TOCHI, IJHCS, etc., and the technical achievements have been widely promoted and applied in the industry, and the research results have won two national science and technology progress awards. He was the Dean of GIX of the Global Innovation Institute of Tsinghua University (2015-2020), and the President of Qinghai University since April 2022 (counterpart support).
Wang Xiaoyun, Professor of the "Yang Zhenning Lecture" at the Institute for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries, fellow of the International Cryptologic Association, and chairman of the Chinese Cryptologic Society. Mainly engaged in the research of cryptography theory and related mathematical problems. The collision attack theory of cryptographic hash function is proposed, and five international common hash function algorithms including MD5 and SHA-1 are cracked. The design of the hash function SM3 became an ISO/IEC international standard. There are more than 50 representative papers, and 3 of them have won the best papers of the European Secret Society and the American Secret Society. He has won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of National Natural Science Award, Chen Jiageng Science Award, Qiushi Outstanding Scientist Award, Su Buqing Applied Mathematics Award, Future Science Award - Mathematics and Computer Science Award, etc.
Wei Wensheng, Professor, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Research Fellow, Peking University Biomedical Frontier Innovation Center and Peking University-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, Director of Peking University Genome Editing Research Center; Leading scientist in Changping Laboratory. The research group is committed to the development of gene editing technology, new gene therapy and vaccine technology, and high-throughput functional genomics technology, and pays attention to the molecular mechanism research of cancer, infection and other major diseases, so as to provide new drug targets and ideas for the development of efficient therapeutic methods.
Professor Weng Jingke graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree in biotechnology in 2003 and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University in 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Research and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 2013 to 2023, Professor Weng was a member of the Whitehead Institute at MIT, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, and is currently the first director of the Institute for Botany-Human Interactions and Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Bioengineering at Northeastern University. Professor Weng's research interests include plant metabolic evolution, synthetic biology and drug discovery, and he is a co-founder and scientific advisor to several biotechnology companies.
Yang Huanming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; Vice Chairman of the Genetics Society of China, the Chinese Society of Bioengineering and the Chinese Society for Urban Science Research; Co-founder of Shenzhen BGI. Yang Huanming has been engaged in genomics research and teaching for many years, and together with his BGI team and global collaborators, he has completed the "International Human Genome Project (HGP, 1999-2003)", "HapMap, 2002-2006)", "International Thousand Genomes Project (G1K, 2008-2012)", "International Cancer Genome Project (ICGP, 2008-2010)" and International Yeast Genome Redesign and Synthesis Program (Sc2.0, 2011-2017)" and other international cooperation programs, as well as genome projects of rice, domestic pigs, chickens, silkworms, pandas, and SARS viruses. Yang Huanming has published more than 600 papers in international academic journals, of which more than 120 have been published in Cell, Science, Nature and its sub-journals. Yang is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Academy of Sciences for Developing Countries and the African Academy of Sciences, and an international/foreign member of the national academies of sciences in Denmark, Germany, India, Ukraine, and the United States.
Peidong Yang, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences, S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Director of BASF California Research Alliance and the Kavli Institute for Energy Nanoscience at Berkeley, known for his research on semiconductor nanowires and their applications in photonics and energy. Peidong Yang received his bachelor's degree in applied chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. He has received the Global Energy Award, the MacArthur Genius Award, the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Award, the American Chemical Society Nanoscience Award, the American Materials Society Medal, the Baekeland Medal, the Alfred Sloan Research Scholar Award, the Beckman Young Scholar Award, the Natural Science Foundation Young Scholar Award, the Materials Society Young Scholar Award, the Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics, the American Chemical Society Chemistry Award, and the Alan Waterman Award. 2014 Thomson Reuters Physics Citation Laureate Award.
Zhang Biao is currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2011, the University of Hamburg in Germany conferred an honorary doctorate of natural sciences. He has participated in theoretical research on artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, machine learning, etc., and applied the above theoretical research results to applied technology research such as pattern recognition, knowledge engineering, and robotics. In 2014, the Chinese Computer Federation (CCF) awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2019, the Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society (CAAI) awarded Wu Wenjun the highest achievement award in artificial intelligence.
Liangfang Zhang holds a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University, a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He joined the University of California, San Diego in 2008 to engage in biomimetic nanomedicine research. He pioneered cell membrane-coated nanomaterials and led this cutting-edge field of research. At present, he has published more than 260 academic papers and applied for more than 120 US and international patents. Since 2017, it has been selected into the list of highly cited scholars in the world for five consecutive years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020.
Dr. Yaqin Zhang is the Chair Professor of Intelligent Science at Tsinghua University and the Dean of the Institute of Intelligent Industry at Tsinghua University. He served as President of Baidu from September 2014 to October 2019. Prior to becoming President of Baidu, Dr. Zhang worked at Microsoft for 16 years, successively serving as Senior Vice President and Chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, President and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, Global Vice President of Microsoft and Chairman of Microsoft China. Dr. Zhang is a world-class scientist and entrepreneur in digital video and artificial intelligence, with more than 60 U.S. patents, more than 500 academic papers, and 11 books. A number of image and video compression and transmission technologies invented by him have been adopted by international standards and widely used in the fields of high-definition television, Internet video, multimedia retrieval, mobile video, and image databases. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Davos Artificial Intelligence Committee, the Future Transportation Steering Committee, and Chairman of the Apollo Alliance, the world's largest open platform for autonomous driving technology. He is also a member of the Corporate Board of Directors of the United Nations Directorate for Programme Development (UNDP). Dr. Zhang Yaqin is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Australian National Academy of Engineering (foreigner). He is also a member of the National Academy of Inventions, the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and the Society for Chinese Intelligence. Awarded an IEEE Fellow in 1997 at the age of 31, he became the youngest scientist in history to receive this honor, and in 2004 he received the IEEE Technology Pioneer Award, serving as a trustee, honorary or visiting professor at more than a dozen of the world's top universities and as a director of four high-tech companies.
Guoying Zhao graduated from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005 with a doctorate degree in engineering, and is currently a professor at the Academy of Finland, a (tenured) professor at the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis at the University of Oulu, Finland, a visiting professor at Aalto University, Finland, an academician of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and an academician of the European Academy of Sciences. His research interests include computer vision, affective computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. She has published more than 300 academic papers and more than 24,200 Google Scholar citations, and her research has been reported on Finnish national television, Canadian Technology Discovery TV, and MIT Technology Review. The more than 30 postdoctoral and doctoral students under his supervision have become professors, one has been awarded a Fellow position at the Academy of Finland, two have been awarded a postdoctoral position at the Academy of Finland, and many have received highly competitive international and national awards. She is (was) an editorial board member (AE) of several international journals such as PR, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TMM, IVC, JEI, and is a board member of the Finnish Association for Artificial Intelligence, program chair and conference chair of international conferences such as ICMI 2021, an IEEE Fellow, an International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Fellow and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA). She has been named a Nokia Visiting Professor, one of the top 10 European Chinese science and technology leaders, and the 2020 Finnish Chinese Student Scholar of the Year.
In 2001, Academician Zhao Yuliang took the lead in proposing the toxicology and safety of artificial nanomaterials, created the world's first nanobiological effect and safety research laboratory, and took the lead in revealing the safety of biomedical nanomaterials and the important regularity of tumor nanomedicine. The research results have published more than 600 SCI papers, which have been cited about 70,000 times, and the H- factor is ~133. Some of the methods have been adopted by more than 160 countries of ISO. His research achievements have won the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019), the second prize of the National Natural Science Award twice (2012, 2018), the "TWAS Chemistry Award", the "Outstanding Contribution Award in Toxicology of China", and the "CASNN Lifetime Achievement Award". In 2015, the "Nanomedicine" Professional Committee of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association was established, and in 2011, the "Nanotoxicology" Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Toxicology was established. Vigorously promote the initiation and development of the frontier of nanomaterials and medicine in the mainland.
Kun Zhou, Professor of School of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Director of the National Key Laboratory of Computer-Aided Design and Graphics Systems, Zhejiang University, Fellow of the International Computer Society (ACM Fellow), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Fellow). He has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the Science Exploration Award, MIT TR35 and other domestic and foreign awards.
Zhou Zhihua, professor of Nanjing University, dean of the Department of Computer Science and Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, winner of the National Natural Science Award, IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, and fellow of ACM, AAAI, IEEE and other societies.
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【Registration】
2023 MIT Technology Review "35 Under 35 Tech Innovators" China Selection is now registering!
How to register: Apply online through the official website tr35.mittrchina.com.
Deadline: August 31, 2023 23:59 Beijing time
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