Since 1999, MIT Technology Review has conducted the Young Technology Innovators Under 35 Awards to identify young technology innovators or entrepreneurs around the world who are considered to be talented, innovative, and have the potential to change the world, to give them the attention they deserve, to recognize their innovative work in technology, and to inspire them to continue to achieve more in their professional fields.
After more than 20 years of precipitation, MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) has become one of the most authoritative evaluation systems for young science and technology innovation talents in the world. While looking at the world, we must not forget that in every country and every region, there is also such a group of young people who are working hard for their development. In order to make more young innovators visible, TR35 began a regional selection in 2010.
Among them, as one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the Asia-Pacific region is experiencing sustained and rapid economic development and social progress, and its power of scientific and technological innovation cannot be underestimated. This year is the fourth year of the Asia-Pacific "35 Under 35 Technology Innovation Talents" in China, and we hope to continue to discover more young scientific and technological talents with great development potential, and push this group of agile, inspired and creative scientific and technological young people to a diversified and global stage.
In 2024, MIT Technology Review's "35 Under 35 Technology Innovators" Asia-Pacific registration is open, and young scientists, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region under the age of 35 can participate.
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This year's selection has now received the support of a number of global heavyweights, and the first 20 judges are as follows (*in alphabetical order of last name):
Cyril Boyer
Australian Laureate Scholar and Professor at the University of New South Wales
Cyrille Boyer is an Australian Laureate Scholar, Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Associate Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Polymers, and a member of the advisory boards of Advanced Materials, Polymer Chemistry, ACS Macro Letters, ACS Infectious Diseases, and others. Professor Boyer has received several awards, including the IUPAC-Polymer International Young Investigator Award (2018), the Polymer Chemistry Chair Award (2018), the Chemical Engineering Excellence Award (2018), the American Chemical Society Young Scientist Award in the Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules (2016), the Le Fevre Memorial Prize in Chemistry from the Australian Academy of Science, and one of the Australian Prime Minister's Science Awards. Malcolm McIntosh Physical Scientist Award (2015). Prof. Boyer's research interests include the preparation of functional macromolecules using photocatalysts for applications in areas such as nanomedicine, advanced materials, and energy storage. In nanomedicine, his team has designed novel antimicrobial and anticancer polymers. More recently, he has applied his photochemistry techniques to 3D printing, enabling precise control of the nano- and macrostructure of 3D-printed objects.
Elizabeth Broadbent
Professor at the University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Elizabeth Broadbent, Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. His interest in robotics led Professor Broadbent to study at the University of Canterbury as an electrical and electronics engineer and then health psychology to pursue interests in psychoneuroimmunology, emotional robotics and more. She is a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Psychology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Science, Technology, and Society Program, where she received a Fulbright Award for her research on companion robots.
Chen Shaochen
Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academician of the National Academy of Inventors of the United States;
Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and founding director of the Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Shaochen Chen is the Zable Chair Professor, Professor and Former Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering, and Founding Director of the Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Program Director of the National Science Foundation for Nanofabrication. As a pioneer in 3D printing and bioprinting, he has published more than 180 papers in top journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Science Advances, and has received numerous awards such as the NSF CAREER Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the National Institutes of Health Edward Nagy New Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Schauer Research Gold Medal in Manufacturing Engineering, and National Science Foundation BRITE Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the International Society for Optical Engineering, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a member of the National Academy of Inventors. He is the co-founder of Allegro 3D, the company that developed 3D bioprinters and biomaterials, which was acquired by Cellink.
Chen Xiaodong
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Singapore, Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences;
Vice-Chancellor Professor of Nanyang Technological University and Director of the Flexible Device Innovation Centre of Nanyang Technological University
He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the Singapore Academy of Engineering, and the German Academy of Sciences. He is also the Scientific Director and Chief Scientist of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at the Singapore Science and Technology Agency (A*STAR). He has received the President's Science Award of Singapore, the National Research Foundation of Singapore Fellowship Award, the Falling Walls Award, the Humboldt Foundation Bessel Research Award, the Dan Maydan Nanoscience Award, and the Kabiller Young Research Award. Professor Chen is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Chemical Society-Nano, the flagship journal in the field of nanotechnology, and a member of the editorial advisory board of several prestigious journals.
Gu Min
Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Australian Academy of Science, Academician of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering;
Executive Chairman of the Council of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Dean of the Institute of Photonic Chips, and Professor
Gu Min is currently the Executive Chairman of the Council of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Dean and Professor of the Institute of Photonic Chips. He was the Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Swinburne University, Australia, the Australian Research Council Laureate Professor, and the Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of RMIT University, Australia. He has published 4 English monographs, 1 Chinese translation, and 1 English edit. He has published more than 560 papers in the field of nano/biophotonics in internationally recognized authoritative journals (Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, etc.). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering, and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has been elected as a Fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the British Physical Society (IOP), the Australian Physical Society (AIP), and the Chinese Optical Society (COS). He has served as President of the International Society for Optical Life Sciences, Vice President and Chair of the International Optical Commission (ICO), Council Member and Chair of the International Committee of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is also the recipient of the Albert Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Beattie Steel Award of the Optical Society of Australia, the Ian Wark Award of the Australian Academy of Science, the Boas Award of the Australian Physical Society, and the Victorian Science Innovation Award. In 2019, he received the Dennis Gabor Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics, in 2022 he received the Emmett Norman Lith Medal from the International OPTICA Optical Society (formerly OSA), and in 2023 he received the Shanghai Magnolia Memorial Award.
Hu Lingwen
Chief Scientist of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Dr. Hu Lingwen is a world-renowned expert in nuclear reactor design and safety, advanced nuclear reactor system development, and nuclear technology applications. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in nuclear engineering from Tsinghua University in Taiwan and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has more than 25 years of experience in the application of nuclear technology, leading innovative R&D projects that support the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors. Dr. Hu is also a member of advisory and technical committees for private investment, industry, federal agencies, and international organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the International Organization for Standardization, the American Nuclear Society, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In addition to research, development, and project management, Dr. Hu has contributed to the field of education, mentoring more than 30 undergraduates, graduate students, and mentoring several postdoctoral fellows and early career research scientists at MIT. Dr. Hu has received numerous awards and honors, including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Best Paper Award, the MIT Excellence Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Nuclear Science, Tsinghua University, Taiwan, the Radiation Science and Technology Award, and was elected a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society. Dr. Hu has co-authored more than 270 papers, including peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, book chapters, and technical reports.
Thomas Knöpfel
Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University, Director of JC STEM Lab on Neural Circuit Dynamics
Thomas Knöpfel, Professor and Director of the JC STEM Lab on Neural Circuit Dynamics, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his double degree in Physics and Medicine from the University of Ulm, Germany, and his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he worked as an assistant professor and associate professor, as well as in drug discovery at a large Swiss pharmaceutical company. In 1997, Thomas Knöpfel moved to Japan to serve as Director of the newly established Laboratory of Neuronal Circuit Dynamics at RIKEN's Department of Brain Science Research. In 2013, he was the Chair Professor of Optogenetics and Circuit Neuroscience at Imperial College London, UK. In 2023, Prof. Knöpfel joined Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published more than 230 research papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Cerebral Cortex. Professor Knöpfel's research revolves around "how the brain produces cognition and emotion", covering optical imaging techniques and genetics, and he actively collaborates with theoretical neuroscientists to unravel the mechanisms of neuronal circuits.
Seung Hwan Ko
Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, and Vice Dean for Research Affairs
Seung Hwan Ko is a professor and associate dean for research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He has published more than 260 papers with more than 23,000 citations, including Nature, Nature-Materials, Nature-Electronics, Nature-Photonics, Nature-Communications, and Science Advances. His research interests include soft materials development, fabrication processes, and wearable and bioelectronic devices, and he is committed to solving bottlenecks in the current research field.
Liu Xiaogang
Professor, National University of Singapore
Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the National University of Singapore in 2006 and being promoted to full professor in 2017. His research interests include the application of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles in energy conversion, the application of optical nanomaterials in neuromodulation and light imaging, the development of advanced X-ray imaging scintillators, and the prototyping of electronic tools for assistive technologies.
Lu Jun
Qiushi Chair Professor, Zhejiang University
Jun Lu is Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University. He received his B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000 and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 2008, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and chemistry researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States from 2009 until 2022. He has published more than 550 papers included in SCI as the corresponding author/first author, including more than 60 papers in Nature, Science and their sub-journals, with a total of more than 69,000 citations and an H-index of 143, and has been continuously selected as a Global Highly Cited Scientist from 2018 to 2023, and has been selected in the fields of materials science and chemistry from 2021 to 2022, with more than 20 patents. He has received more than 20 important awards in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion, including the 2009 Global Top 100 Technology R&D Award (the "Oscar" innovation award of the American technology community).
Lu HD
Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Australian Academy of Science, Academician of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering, Academician of the National Academy of Inventors of the United States, Academician of the World Academy of Sciences;
Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey, UK
He is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey, a member of the Science and Technology Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Physical Laboratory, Chair of the Forum on Responsible Research Indicators and a member of the National Centre for University-Business Collaboration. Previously, he was Director of Universities UK and a member of the Board of Directors of the UK Research and Innovation Agency. Professor Lu has published more than 500 papers in international journals with over 100,450 citations and an H-factor of 150. He holds more than 20 international patents and has received several international awards, including the Order of Australia for outstanding contributions to education and international research. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering, a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors of the United States, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences.
Sushmita Mitra
Professor, Machine Intelligence Division, Statistical Institute, India
Sushmita Mitra is a Professor in the Machine Intelligence Division of the Indian Institute of Statistics. From 1992 to 1994, he was a DAAD researcher at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, and was a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alberta, Canada, Meiji University in Japan, and Aalborg University in Denmark. Dr. Mitra has published several books, more than 150 papers, and has served as a special issue editor in several journals, such as IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and Information Science. She is also a member of IEEE, TWAS, INSA, IAPR, INAE, and NASI. She is an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer, a member of the STEMM Women Academic Panel, and the IEEE Calcutta Section Chair (2021-2022). She has visited more than 30 countries as a plenary session/guest speaker or academic visiting scholar, and has served as program chair, steering chair, and program committee member for many international conferences. Her current research interests include data science, pattern recognition, soft computing, medical image processing, and bioinformatics.
Nie Shuming
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Shuming Nie is the Grainger Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and the founding dean of the School of Modern Engineering and Applied Science at Nanjing University. His research focuses on cancer nanomedicine, surgical instruments and imaging, mRNA drug delivery, and immunotherapy. Professor Nie has published more than 350 papers, holds a number of patents, participated in many book chapters, participated in more than 500 invited lectures worldwide, and has been cited more than 90,000 times.
Seung Bum Park
Professor and Dean of the Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, South Korea
Prof. Seung Bum Park received his B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1997) degrees in Chemistry from Yonsei University, South Korea, and his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from Texas A&M University in 2001, followed by postdoctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber at Harvard University. In 2004, Seung Bum joined the Department of Chemistry at Seoul National University in South Korea as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and professor in 2013. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Seung Bum's research interests span the field of chemical biology, including molecular diversity, fluorescent bioprobes, phenotypic screening, and drug discovery and target identification for protein interactions. He has published more than 180 papers and holds 40 patents. In 2016, he founded SPARK Biopharma, a bio-venture capital firm focused on research on small molecule-based immunomodulators for cancer, fibrosis, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Serum Ramakrishna
Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, Academician of the American Academy of Sciences;
Professor, National University of Singapore
Scholar Seeram Ramakrishna is a world-renowned professor of interdisciplinary disciplines at the National University of Singapore, one of the top 10 in the world. He has been named one of the "World's Most Influential Thinkers" (Thomson Reuters), a "Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers of the Past Decade" (Clarivate Analytics), and a "Top 25 Scientists in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (Ioannidis | Stanford University C-score). To date, he has published papers with an H-index of 191 and 181,345 citations. He has been elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Singapore Academy of Engineering, the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, and the American Academy of Sciences. He is also an elected Fellow of ASM International, ASME, AIMBE, IMechE and IoM3 in the UK, ISTE in India, and the International Federation of Biomaterial Science and Engineering (FBSE).
Shi Jiahai
Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Shi Jiahai is an Assistant Professor (PhD Supervisor) at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, with a B.S. from Xiamen University, a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, and a postdoctoral fellow from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Twenty years of experience in the development of innovative drugs at the source. He has participated in the development of hepatitis E virus vaccine (Yikoning). During his Ph.D., it was demonstrated that the dimeric interface of the SARS coronavirus main protease is a potential viral drug target. During his postdoctoral period, he studied under Harvey Lodish and participated in the creation of the first generation of engineered red blood cell therapy platforms. He is now involved in pioneering engineered extraerythrocyte vesicle gene therapy and has used this technology as a co-scientific founder and scientific advisor to Carmine Therapeutic. He is now further developing the second-generation engineered red blood cell therapy platform and using this technology to become the scientific founder and scientific advisor of Carcell Biopharma. Later, he developed the world's first platform technology for the production of shark nanobodies using the immune production of sharks from breeding sharks, and established Jotbody to focus on camel and shark nanobody discovery services and life science tools.
Hiroyuki Ta
Professor, University of Chicago
Professor Tian graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry. This was followed by postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard Medical School, specializing in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. His current research focuses on the development of novel bioelectronic materials, with a particular emphasis on the use of semiconductor devices to unravel the complexities of subcellular biophysics. In addition, Professor Tian is also actively studying the dynamic properties of the interface between hard and soft, which may have important implications in various fields of science and technology. Professor Tian has received numerous awards and honors, including the M. Sackler International Chemistry Award, the U.S. President's Award for Young Scientist in Science and Technology (PECASE), and the MIT Technology Review "35 Under 35 in Science and Technology" (TR35).
Wang Chunsheng
Professor, University of Maryland
Dr. Wang is the Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland, Associate Editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials, Director of the Extreme Battery Research Center at the University of Maryland-Army Laboratory (UMD-ARL), and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. His research focuses on rechargeable batteries and fuel cells, and he has published more than 360 papers, with more than 71,000 citations and an H-index of 140. Since 2018, he has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics and received the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society in 2021.
Yin Yadong
Professor, University of California, Riverside
Prof. Yadong Yin received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Younan Xia. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2002, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under the supervision of Professor A. Paul Alivisatos. In 2005, he was promoted to scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He began his tenure in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, in 2006 and was promoted to full professor in 2014. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Cottrell Scholar Award (2009), the DuPont Young Professor Grant (2010), the 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant (2010), the NSF CAREER Award (2010), the MRS Fellow (2020), and the Langmuir Lectureship Award（2022）。 He has been named one of the world's most highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics and has been on the list from 2014 to 2022. He currently serves as an associate editor of Responsive Materials (Wiley) and Research (CAST & AAAS), and is on the editorial boards of more than a dozen journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Science China Materials, Nano Letters, and Chemical Reviews.
Zhang Chengqi
Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney, and President of the 2024 International Federation of Artificial Intelligence General Assembly
Professor Chengqi Zhang is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney, a Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence, a Senior Doctor of Science (DSc) in Computer Science, a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and a recipient of the NSW Science and Engineering (Engineering and ICT) Award and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence (Leadership) at the University of Technology Sydney. His research direction is distributed artificial intelligence. Professor Zhang is the first mainland Chinese author to publish an academic paper in the journal Artificial Intelligence, a member of the International Federation of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Award Committee from 2020 to 2023, and was elected as the President-Elect of the 2024 International Federation of Artificial Intelligence Congress. From 2021 to 2023, Professor Zhang was invited to be one of the presidium members of the Shanghai WAIC. He has participated in the review of a number of projects in China, including the National Natural Science Award of China, the 973 Project, the 863 Project, the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the Changjiang Scholars Program.