The 2021 thirty-five Innovators Under 35 China have been selected by a committee of judges.  They expertly evaluated each project in order to find the most talented people who are developing innovative technological solutions for the problems of modern society.

What the 35 have in common is that they are developing new projects that will change all areas of society, and they are disrupting our current and future way of living and making the world a better one. The thirty-five innovators are selected from five different categories: entrepreneurs, humanitarian, pioneers, visionaries, and inventors.

Recognition by MIT Technology Review gives these young people a platform to present themselves and their achievements to industry leaders, academic experts, and the global public.


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Erdal Arıkan

Erdal Arikan

Professor, Bilkent University

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包信和

Xinhe Bao

President of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

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陈国强

George Guo-Qiang CHEN

Professor of Microbiology and Biomaterials, Tsinghua University; Director, Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology (CSSB)

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陈军

Jun Chen

Professor, PhD, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sceince; Director, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, College of Chemistry; Vice President, Nankai University

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陈十一

Shiyi Chen

Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Former President, Southern University of Science and Technology; Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology

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陈曦

Xi Chen

Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University

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陈忠伟

Zhongwei Chen

Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Director of Waterloo Centre for Electrochemical Energy, Director of Applied Nanomaterials & Clean Energy Laboratory, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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崔屹

Yi Cui

Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University

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戴琼海

Qionghai Dai

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor, Tsinghua University

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樊春海

Chunhai Fan

SJTU K. C. Wong Chair Professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU); Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS academician)

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高彩霞

Caixia Gao

Researcher, Institute of genetics and developmental biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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高文

Wen Gao

Boya Chair Professor and Dean at the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University

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顾臻

Zhen Gu

Chair Professor and Dean of College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University

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Kam W. Leong

Kam W. Leong

Samuel Y Sheng Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University

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李朝军

Chao-Jun Li

E. B. Eddy Chair and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Green Chemistry; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences)

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李俊峰

Junfeng Li

The first director of National Centre for Climate Change Strategy Research and International Cooperation

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李兰娟

Lanjuan Li

Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor/Chief Physician of Infectious Diseases, the 1st Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University; Director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment; Director of Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases

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林忠钦

Zhongqin Lin

President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering

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刘陈立

Chenli Liu

Director of Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, SIAT, CAS

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卢煜明

Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo

Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

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米磊

Lei Mi

Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Casstar

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Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig

Research Director, Google

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欧阳明高

Minggao Ouyang

Member, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor, Tsinghua University

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潘建伟

Jianwei Pan

Professor, University of Science and Technology of China; Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Tomaso Poggio

Tomaso Poggio

Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

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John A. Rogers

John A. Rogers

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor and Director of Querrey/Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University

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David Schmittlein

David Schmittlein

Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

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邵阳

Yang Shao-Horn

Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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施路平

Luping Shi

Professor, Tsinghua University; Found Director of Center for Brain Inspired Computing Research (CBICR)

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史维

Wei Shyy

President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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施一公

Yigong Shi

Chair Professor of Structural Biology; President of Westlake University; Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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谭蔚泓

Weihong Tan

Director of the State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics; Distinguished professor of chemistry and biology at Hunan University; Director of the Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dean of the Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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滕锦光

Jin-Guang Teng

President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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童利民

Limin Tong

Professor, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University

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王钦宏

Qinhong Wang

Deputy Director of Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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王巍

Wei Wang

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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王小凡

Xiao-Fan Wang

Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, in the School of Medicine; Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

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David A.Weitz

David A.Weitz

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University

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温江涛

Jiangtao Wen

Ph.D. IEEE Fellow; Professor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University; Chairman, RayShaper Inc.

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吴华强

Huaqiang Wu

Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University

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吴朝晖

Zhaohui Wu

President of Zhejiang University

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夏丰年

Fengnian Xia

Barton L. Weller Associate Professor in Engineering and Science, Yale University

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谢晓亮

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academy of Medicine, and the US Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Lee Shau-kee Professor of Peking University

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许平

Ping Xu

Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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薛其坤

Qikun Xue

President of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

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杨焕明

Huanming Yang

Chairman of the Board, BGI-China

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杨强

Qiang Yang

Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Chief AI officer of WeBank; President of the international federation of artificial intelligence

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张钹

Bo Zhang

Professor, Tsinghua University; Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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张成奇

Chengqi Zhang

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

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张宏

Hong Zhang

Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University; Dean of School of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science of Zhejiang University

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张磊

Lei Zhang

Founder and CEO, Hillhouse Capital Management

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张良方

Liangfang Zhang

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor's Endowed Chair Professor, UC San Diego

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张亚勤

Ya-Qin Zhang

Chair Professor of AI Science, Tsinghua University; Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences