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All around the world, young people are driving progress toward better health, a more stable climate, and greater equality. Each year, MIT Technology Review identifies 35 Innovators Under 35 who are leading the way forward through research and entrepreneurship.

This year’s list includes nine people with MIT connections, six of whom are alumni. Five fields are spotlighted in the list: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate and energy, materials science, and robotics.

Read about this year’s MIT honorees below. For more innovators associated with the Institute, check out who made Tech Review’s Innovators Under 35 list in 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020. 

INNOVATORS UNDER 35: MIT COMMUNITY MEMBERS

  • Head shot of MIT alum Chibueze Amanchukwu

    Chibueze Amanchukwu PhD ’17

    University of Chicago (Climate and energy)

    Amanchukwu has developed a new type of electrolyte that’s a liquid when the battery is in use and is free of any fire-causing solvents. His approach could make lithium metal batteries more practical.

  • Head shot of former MIT postdoc Xiangkun “Elvis” Cao

    Xiangkun “Elvis” Cao (former postdoc)

    DNV (Climate and energy)

    Cao uses artificial photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into airplane fuel.

  • Head shot of MIT postdoc Claudia Cea

    Claudia Cea (postdoc)

    MIT (Materials science)

    Cea built a flexible system for brain-computer interfaces such as those that have been used to return some aspects of vision to people with blindness.

  • Head shot of MIT alum Ang Cui

    Ang Cui PhD ’21

    Harvard University (Biotechnology)

    Cui spent a decade working out the best way to use big data to understand the immune system; she ultimately created the Immune Dictionary, which is like a “periodic table” for the immune system.

  • Head shot of MIT alum Anna Ivanova

    Anna Ivanova PhD ’22

    Georgia Institute of Technology (Artificial intelligence)

    Ivanova is unlocking a greater understanding of how both large language models and the human brain work.

  • Head shot of MIT alum Changyang Linghu

    Changyang Linghu SM ’16, PhD ’20

    University of Michigan (Biotechnology)

    Linghu has developed an imaging technique he hopes will shed light on how the brain achieves learning, memory, and consciousness.

  • Head shot of MIT alum Christina Tringides

    Christina Tringides ’15

    Rice University (Biotechnology)

    Tringides engineered a new type of electrocorticogram that could help brain surgeons operate with greater precision.

  • Head shot of MIT grad student Greta Tuckute

    Greta Tuckute (graduate student)

    MIT (Artificial intelligence)

    Tuckute is laying the groundwork for better cochlear implants and other brain-machine interfaces.

  • Head shot of MIT alum Andee Wallace

    Andee Wallace PhD ’20

    Robigo (Biotechnology)

    Wallace is developing engineered microbes that can provide crop protection without the downsides of chemical pesticides.

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