The 2020 thirty-five Innovators Under 35 China have been selected by a committee of judges from over 600 candidates.  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 Arikan

Erdal Arikan

Professor, Bilkent University

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Shiyi Chen

President, Southern University of Science and Technology

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Xi Chen

Xi Chen

Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University

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Tsuhan Chen

Tsuhan Chen

Deputy President (Research and Technology) and Distinguished Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) ; Chief Scientist of AI Singapore

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Yi Cui

Yi Cui

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

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Qionghai Dai

Qionghai Dai

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor, Tsinghua University

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Chen Dong

Chen Dong

Professor and Director, the Institute for Immunology; Dean, the School of Medicine, Tsinghua University

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Caixia Gao

Caixia Gao

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

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Xuedong Huang

Xuedong Huang

Microsoft Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of AI Cognitive Services

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ChaoJun Li

ChaoJun 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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Ju Li

Ju Li

Materials science expert; Tenured Professor of the Massachusetts institute of technology

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Shushen Li

Shushen Li

President, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Zhongqin Lin

Zhongqin Lin

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

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Chenli Liu

Chenli Liu

Director of Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, SIAT, CAS

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You Lu

You Lu

Professor and Chair of Department of Thoracic Cancer, Cancer Center. West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine Sichuan University

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Lei Mi

Lei Mi

Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Casstar

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Tom Mitchell

Tom Mitchell

Former Dean of Computer Science Department Head, Carnegie Mellon University; Chief AI Scientist, Squirrel AI Learning

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Minggao Ouyang

Minggao Ouyang

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

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Jianwei Pan

Jianwei Pan

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

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Lianmao Peng

Lianmao Peng

Member, the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor and Director of Research Center for Carbon-based Electronics, Peking University; Director of Beijing Institute of Carbon-based Integrated Circuit

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Tomaso Poggio

Tomaso Poggio

Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

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Yong Qiu

Yong Qiu

President, Tsinghua University

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Dan Roth

Dan Roth

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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David Schmittlein

David Schmittlein

Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Luping Shi

Luping Shi

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

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Yigong Shi

Yigong Shi

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

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Wei Shyy

Wei Shyy

President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Yuanchun Shi

Yuanchun Shi

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University

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Jin-Guang Teng

Jin-Guang Teng

President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Qiang Wang

Qiang Wang

Co-Founder, ZhenFund

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Jiangtao Wen

Jiangtao Wen

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

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Zhaohui Wu

Zhaohui Wu

President of Zhejiang University

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Fengnian Xia

Fengnian Xia

Barton L. Weller Associate Professor in Engineering and Science

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Younan Xia

Younan Xia

Brock Family Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Lei Xing

Lei Xing

Jacob Haimson Professor & Director of Medical Physics Division, Department of Radiation Oncology, Electrical Engineering (Courtesy), Stanford University

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Bo Xu

Bo Xu

Professor and President of Institute of Automation

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Hongtao Xu

Hongtao Xu

Professor in the School of Microelectronics, Fudan University; Co-founder of ICLEGEND MICRO

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William Xu

William Xu

Director of the Board and Chief Strategy Marketing Officer, Huawei Technologies

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Peidong Yang

Peidong Yang

S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy, Professor of Chemistry

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Qiang Yang

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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Bo Zhang

Bo Zhang

Professor, Tsinghua University; Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Yuliang Zhao

Yuliang Zhao

Professor, Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director-General, National Center for Nanosciences and Technology, China

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Bowen Zhou

Bowen Zhou

President of JD Cloud & AI, Chairman of Technology Committee, JD.com, Vice President of JD.com

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Kui Zhou

Kui Zhou

Partner of Sequoia China

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Lidong Zhou

Lidong Zhou

Distinguished scientist, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia