Over the past year, 35 top scientific and technological leaders around the world conducted a series of rigorous and prudent reviews. Throughout the process, we have seen innovative achievements of young people from different fields with diverse backgrounds in the Asia-Pacific region. These young people are either innovation leaders of high-tech companies, or scientific research leaders from universities and institutes, representing emerging technology fields such as life sciences, artificial intelligence, energy, and environment.


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1. Rinti Banerjee

Rinti Banerjee

Madhuri Sinha Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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2. Jianzhu Chen

Jianzhu Chen

Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT

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3. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen

Nasrat Muzayyin Professor, National University of Singapore

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4. Zhijian (James) Chen

Zhijian (James) Chen

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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5. David J Craik

David J Craik

Professor, The University of Queensland

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6. Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

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7. Eugene A Fitzgerald

Eugene A Fitzgerald

CEO, Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology

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8. Maya Hari

Maya Hari

VP and Managing Director for Asia Pacific, Twitter

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9. Andreas Heinrich

Andreas Heinrich

Director, The IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience at Ewha Womans University

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10. Teck-Hua Ho

Teck-Hua Ho

Senior Deputy President and Provost; Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, National University of Singapore

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11. Linda Hung

Linda Hung

Senior Research Scientist, Toyota Research Institute

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12. Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain

Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University

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13. Amitabh Kant

Amitabh Kant

CEO, National Institution for Transforming India

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14. Abhishek Kapur

Abhishek Kapur

Managing Director, KKR Capstone

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15. Ping Koy Lam

Ping Koy Lam

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President (Research) , The University of Adelaide

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16. Pooi See Lee

Pooi See Lee‬

Dean of Graduate College, Nanyang Technological University

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17. Max Lu

Max Lu

President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Surrey

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18. Liqun Luo

Liqun Luo

Professor, Stanford University

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19. Indranil Manna

Indranil Manna

President, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Vice Chancellor, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra

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20. Iven Mareels

Iven Mareels

Partner, IBM Global Business Services; Director, IBM ANZ Centre for Applied Research

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21. Anton Middelberg

Anton PJ Middelberg

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Vice President (Research) , The University of Adelaide

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22. Dorthe Mikkelsen

Dorthe Mikkelsen

President, MSD in Asia Pacific

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23. Uhtaek Oh

Uhtaek Oh

Director, The Brain Science Institute of KIST

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24. C. H. Raymond Ooi

C. H. Raymond Ooi

Professor, University of Malaya

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25. Cristin Print

Cristin Print

Deputy Chair, The NZ Crown Research Institute ESR

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26. Zhiqiang qiao

Shizhang Qiao

Honorary Professor, University of Queensland

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27. Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Professor, Universiti Putra Malaysia

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28. V. Ramgopal Rao

V. Ramgopal Rao

Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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29. Shanker V Selvadurai

Shanker V Selvadurai

Vice President & CTO, IBM Technology, Asia Pacific

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30. Chunhua Shen

Chunhua Shen

Professor of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide

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31. Jiahai Shi

Jiahai Shi

Assiatant Professor, City University of Hong Kong

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32. Xing Tang

Xing Tang

Vice President of Alibaba Group; The Head of Taobao & Tmall Product Technology and Platform Ecology

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33. Geoffrey Waterhouse

Geoffrey Waterhouse

Associate Professor, The University of Auckland

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34. Nicole Wenderoth

Nicole Wenderoth

Professor, ETH Zürich

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35. Chengqi Zhang

Chengqi Zhang

Associate Vice President and Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney; General Chair, IJCAI-2024