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Innovators Under 35

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The leading community of innovators, inventors and pioneers in Asia Pacific.

Innovators Under 35 is the most prestigious recognition worldwide from MIT Technology Review

Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific honours the best 35 young talents from Australia, Brunei, China (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam whose superb technical work promises to change the world.

Our goal is to create a community for the brightest and youngest minds of the region to connect with each other and escalate the impact of their achievements.

The list recognises the development of new technology or the creative application of existing technologies to solve global problems in industries such as biotechnology, materials, computer hardware, energy, transportation, communications, and the Internet.

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Meet emerging innovators in Asia Pacific

Meet the winners of the 2021 edition of Innovators Under 35 from across the region coming from different cutting-edge domains. The winners are selected after a rigorous judging process.

Agata Blasiak

She co-developed a variety of AI platforms that could optimize dosing or speed up the search for new drug combinations suitable for treating cancer and other diseases.

Longxing Cao

Developing de novo protein design methods as the next-generation therapeutics to regulate immune response and kill viruses.

Zhixing Cao

Revealing cell biological mechanisms using mathematical modeling.

Chaoji Chen

Breakthroughs in the field of wood nanotechnology towards sustainability.

Guorui Chen

A series of pioneering research work in the strong correlation, superconductivity, and topology of graphene Moiré superlattice.

Ji Chen

Full quantum computational simulation methods to provide theoretical perspectives to provide simulation algorithms to solve complex processes.

Yimu Chen

Single-crystal hybrid halide perovskites fundamentally accelerate the industrialization of emerging classes of semiconductor materials.

Yu-Cheng Chen

Focusing on biological lasers research and related bioinformation encoding technologies.

Ye Ding

Wearable robotic devices and revolutionizing exoskeleton technologies.

Xiaoguang Duan

Next-generation wastewater treatment technology based on green and high-performance non-metal catalysis.

Chuchu Fan

Foundational contributions to the verification of embedded and cyber-physical systems.

Mengdi Han

3D flexible bioelectronic devices to boost the development of intelligent medicine.

Gao Huang

DenseNet, which elegantly solves the gradient vanishing problem in deep learning.

Lining Arnold Ju

Mechanical engineering to find better solutions to help diagnose, treat, and control blood clotting diseases.

Ming Joo Koh

Koh strives for sustainable chemical synthesis in catalytic research.

Zhenzhong Lan

Virtual psychological therapist with integrated artificial intelligence technologies to provide instant and effective consultation services.

Hyeon Jeong Lee

Molecular vibrational spectroscopic imaging techniques to acquire biomolecular information.

Lim Jian Wei Mark

From underground to space, he deploys plasma sources to address the challenges of this generation and the generations to follow.

Natalia Mykhaylova

Using Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and IoT technologies to reduce energy consumption and improve air quality.

Ken Nakagaki

Physical materials with computational and robotic technologies to create a seamless tangible interaction experience.

Hnin Yin Yin Nyein

Cost-effective, mass-produced wearable biosensors that use resting sweat.

Liqiang Pan

Providing new mechanistic insights that will help those who are developing new antibody therapeutics.

Novalia Pishesha

Nanobodies that can be used as a therapeutic agent for a variety of human autoimmune diseases.

Jonathan Scarlett

A better understanding of the mathematical algorithms and theory behind group testing.

Sunmi Shin

Manipulating the transport of heat by bringing together heat transfer and photonics.

Amarjot Singh

A fast human-like learning regime that can power practical AI systems to help build a safer world.

Daria Smirnova

Innovative approaches for efficient light conversion and robust wave transport at the nanoscale.

Enming Song

Overcoming the technical problems related to the brain-computer interface of the implantable flexible electronic system.

Tan Yu Jun

Self-heal materials to reduce the adverse effects brought on by the new development of electronics.

Cheng Tang

New technologies that might defossilize, decarbonize, and decentralize the current chemical industry.

Chao Wang

Immunotherapy against cancer by utilizing various cell-derived functional biomaterials.

Chih-Hwan Henry Yang

Silicon quantum dot-based spin qubits to world-leading performance.

Yifei Yuan

Revealing the real situations of a battery material's behaviors even down to single-atomic resolution.

Guyue Zhou

Consumer drones that make significant technical contributions to onboard intelligent systems.

Xiaozhou Sean Zhou

CO2-based green hydrometallurgical process integrated with a clean reforming process.

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Meet the Judges of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 APAC

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