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Innovators Under 35

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Asia Pacific

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.

Meet the emerging innovators of Asia Pacific

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ASIA PACIFIC

Meet emerging innovators in Asia Pacific

Meet the winners of the 2022 edition of Innovators Under 35 from across the region coming from different cutting-edge domains. The winners are selected after a rigorous judging process.

Huibin CHANG

The new additive textile manufacturing method he designed and built is playing a key role in additive manufacturing applications.

Zhijie CHEN

Constructed porous materials with ultrahigh surface areas to store hydrogen and methane.

Yi HOU

Realized record-breaking efficiency in perovskite/organic tandem solar cells.

Furong HUANG

She makes AI more trustworthy by developing models that can perform tasks safely and efficiently in unseen environments without human oversight.

Ning JIA

She elucidates the molecular mechanisms that provide the key information to understand the function of CRISPR-Cas systems, opening up new doors for the treatment of a wide range of diseases by governing the optimization and development of CRISPR-Cas gene editing tools.

Julia JOUNG

She focuses on developing genetic screening techniques for lab research and clinical diagnosis, and she applies these methods to discover new biological mechanisms in different fields, such as cancer biology and gene regulation.

Viveka KALIDASAN

She invented a wireless-sensing (WiSe) medical implant and conductive sutures, to monitor postoperative complications happening deep within the body of patients, in a real-time manner.

Pang Wei KOH

Combining statistical rigor with interdisciplinary collaborations, he advances the theory and practice of reliable machine learning in the wild.

Wei LI

He achieved many fundamental breakthroughs in multifunctional integrated photodetection devices, photonic and thermodynamic control of thermal radiation, radiative cooling, and energy harvesting.

Xing LIN

He developed large-scale photonic neural network architecture and optoelectronic fused intelligent computing processors, which made photonic computing applications no longer a dream.

Shuai LIU

Specializing in the development and applications of biomaterials and precise gene delivery systems, he proposed strategies to enable organ specificity for delivery carriers.

Wu LIU

He participated in building the national open innovation platform with artificial intelligence for intelligent supply chains, which played a key role in events like epidemic prevention and control measures, technology support in Winter Olympics, and more.

Yang LIU

She has made contributions to the understanding of RNA modifications in the epigenetic regulation of host innate immune defense against pathogen infection, proposing new potential targets for developing immunotherapeutic drugs against infection and cancer.

Yuxin LIU

He creates morphing bioelectronics for future neural interfaces, hoping to cure diseases through brain-computer interfaces in the future, and even offer new capabilities to biological bodies.

Yanwei LUM

Revealed the catalyst mechanism to construct carbon-based materials from carbon dioxide and water.

Jing MENG

She analyzed the costs of carbon-neutral technologies for better carbon policy-making.

Hao PEI

He focuses on promoting the development of third-gen microfluidic technologies for applications in biomedical sciences, to bring more stable, durable, and accurate single-cell sequencing and digital PCR technology, by combining novel polymeric materials with photosensitive chemical mechanisms.

Nisarg SHAH

He invented a fairer resource allocation method and a better voting mechanism, resolving fundamental open questions in these areas.

Yanning SHEN

Her research on scalable, and trustworthy machine learning algorithms from high-dimensional network data paves the way for building trustworthy intelligence over interconnected systems.

Enzheng SHI

He contributed to the commercialization of halide perovskite optoelectronics and provided a new paradigm for the fabrication and application of semiconductor heterojunctions.

Lixue SHI

She implemented advanced vibrational microscopy techniques with novel probes for interrogating biological complexity, paving the way for unraveling biological metabolism and proteome interaction network in physiology and pathology.

Steven TOUZARD

The promising approach to quantum computing that he pioneered reduces the necessary overhead by orders of magnitude and could significantly accelerate the advent of quantum computers.

Guangyu WANG

She is committed to promoting the emerging technology-driven digital medical paradigm, allowing artificial intelligence to truly enter complex clinical scenarios.

Runming WANG

He is committed to searching for novel metallodrugs to address major issues in biomedical sciences by modulating the structures and functions of key metalloproteins in infectious agents with inorganic pharmaceuticals and related chemical/biological tools.

Ying WANG

She discovered the “negative” nano-catalysts that can slow down chemical reactions.

Yu WANG

For the first time, he developed advanced genome editing technologies and engineered the industrial microbe, Corynebacterium glutamicum, into a bacterial strain that is methanol tolerant and able to synthesize amino acids from methanol, laying the foundation for the development of C1 biomanufacturing.

Jiamin WU

With the pioneering efforts for multi-scale intravital observations of complicated biological phenomena in the spatiotemporal domain, he opened up a new horizon for the study of intercellular interactions and functions in mammals at a holistic level.

Gui-Liang XU

He developed high-energy cathode materials for safe and stable rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and beyond.

Jingjing XUE

She designed and modulated the microscopic electronic and crystal structures of perovskite materials and contributed to the development of efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaic devices, as well as next-gen photovoltaic technologies.

Shu YANG

She addressed the challenge of dynamic performance degradation that has long plagued GaN devices and contributed to the next-gen GaN power devices with high efficiency, frequency, and reliability.

Yelu ZENG

Using satellites to collect glimmers of light from plants, he monitors every piece of land and every tree on Earth’s surface.

Kevin ZHAO

He developed precise genome editing technologies for use in human therapeutics and agricultural breeding and is advancing their use in societal applications.

Xiaoxu ZHAO

He proved that the engineering and manufacturing of advanced quantum low-dimensional materials could be accurately achieved at scale with single atomic precision.

Xin ZHAO

He has developed a next-gen gene synthesis technology based on CMOS, MEMS, and microfluidics that can drastically improve the throughput and accuracy of long-chain DNA synthesis, potentially reducing the cost of gene synthesis by order-of-magnitude.

Yunlong ZI

He developed high-performance triboelectric nanogenerators, moving us closer to a smart future.

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