The 2022 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 Innovators have in common is that they are developing new projects that will change all areas of society, they are disrupting our current and future way of living, and they making the world a better place. The 35 Innovators are selected from five different categories: entrepreneurs, humanitarians, 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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chenguoqiang

George Guo-Qiang Chen

Professor, Center of Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences; Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

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chenjianzhu

Jianzhu Chen

Professor, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT

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chenjun

Jun Chen

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sceince; Director, Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry, College of Chemistry; Vice President, Nankai University

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chenshiYi

Shiyi Chen

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, The World Academy of Sciences; Former President, Southern University of Science and Technology

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chenxiaoyuan

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen

Professor, National University of Singapore

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yingYIngchen

Yingying Chen

Professor, Department Chair, Rutgers University; NAI Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member

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fanchunhai

Chunhai Fan

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; K. C. Wong Chair Professor; Dean, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Executive Dean, Institute for Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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fangxuanlai

Nicholas X. Fang

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, HKU

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guzhen

Zhen Gu

Qiushi Distinguished Professor & Dean of College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University

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hekebin

Kebin He

Member, The Chinese Academy of Engineering; Professor of the School of Environment and Dean of the Institute for Carbon Neutrality, Tsinghua University

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henanhai

Nanhai He

Vice President in Drug Discovery, Adlai Nortye

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huliangbing

Liangbing Hu

Professor, University of Maryland

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lindahung

Linda Hung

Manager, Energy & Materials division, Toyota Research Institute

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jiweizhi

Weizhi Ji

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director, Institute of Primate Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology

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pooiseelee

Pooi See Lee

Dean of Graduate College, Nanyang Technological University

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lichaojun

Chaojun Li

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

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lijunfeng

Junfeng Li

Investment Partner of Sequoia China; Standing Director of China Energy Research Society (CERS)

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lilanjuan

Lanjuan Li

Member, The Chinese Academy of Engineering; Director, the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment

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lixuelong

Xuelong Li

Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University

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liuchenli

Chenli Liu

Vice President, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, SIAT

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lugaoqing

Max Lu

President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Surrey

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luyou

You Lu

Deputy Chair of Cancer Center; Director of Department of Thoracic Cancer; Director of Laboratory of Clinical Cell Therapy, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University

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meitao

Tao Mei

Founder and CEO, HiDream.ai; International Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering; Fellow of CAE, IEEE & IAPR

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milei

Lei Mi

Founding Partner and Co-CEO, CASSTAR

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peter

Peter Norvig

Distinguished Education Fellow, Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute; Researcher, Google

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oh

Uhtaek Oh

Director, The Brain Science Institute of KIST

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minggao

Minggao Ouyang

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

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panjianwei

Jian-Wei Pan

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

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qiulili

Lili Qiu

Assistant Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

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liminqiu

Limin Qiu

Change Jiang Chair Professor; Qiushi Chair Professor; Dean of Qiushi College, Zhejiang University

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rao

V. Ramgopal Rao

Pillay Chair Professor in EE; immediate Past Director, IIT Delhi

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johnrogers

John A. Rogers

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

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david

David Schmittlein

John C Head III Dean & Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

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chunhua

Chunhua Shen

Chair Professor, Zhejiang University

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jiahai

Jiahai Shi

Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

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yigongshi

Yigong Shi

President, Westlake University; Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Foreign Associate, The United States National Academy of Sciences; Honorary Foreign Member, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Deputy Chair, The China Association for Science and Technology

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yuanchun

Yuanchun Shi

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University; President, Qinghai University

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weihong

Weihong Tan

Director of the Institute of Basic Medicine and Cancer, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dean of the Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 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 Molecular Medicine at Renji Hospital & Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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tangchao

Chao Tang

Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology; Dean of the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University

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jinguangteng

Jin-Guang Teng

President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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qinhongwang

Qinhong Wang

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

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xiaoyun

Xiaoyun Wang

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; C. N. Yang Professorship of Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University; President, The Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research; Fellow, The International Association for Cryptologic Research

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zhonglinwang

Zhonglin Wang

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Founding Director and Chief Scientist, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

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wenshengwei

Wensheng Wei

Professor of Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences; Professor, the School of Life Sciences, Peking University; Director, Peking University Genome Editing Research Center

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davidweiz

David A. Weitz

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University

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huaqiang

Huaqiang Wu

Professor, Tsinghua University; Dean of School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University; Director of Nanofabrication Technology Center, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Beijing Innovation Center for Integrated Circuits

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lizhu

Li-Zhu Wu

Professor of Chemistry, the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

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minwu

Min Wu

Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor, The University of Maryland; President-Elect, The IEEE Signal Processing Societ

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fengnianxia

Fengnian Xiao

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

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xinglei

Lei Xing

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

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xingxinhui

Xin-Hui Xing

Professor, Tsinghua University; Associate Dean, Tsinghua SIGS Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering (iBHE)

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xujianhe

Jian-He Xu

Full Professor, East China University of Scicence and Technology; Director, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Centre for Biomanufacturing

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xujinbo

Jinbo Xu

Founder, AI Protein Folding Technology; Founder & CSO, MoleculeMind; Tenured Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (affiliate of University of Chicago); Visiting Professor, Peking University and Tsinghua University

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xuping

Ping Xu

Distinguished Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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williamxu

William Xu

Director, Chair, Huawei's Scientist Advisory Committee

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xueqikun

Qikun Xue

Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences; President, Southern University of Science and Technology; President, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences; Professor of Physics, Tsinghua University

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yanghuanming

Huanming Yang

Member, The Chinese Academy of Science; Professor, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Peking Union Medical College (PUMC); Chairman & Co-Founder, BGI-China

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peidongyang

Peidong Yang

S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair in Energy, Department of Chemistry, MSE, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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yaoyi

Michael Yao

Visiting Professors, China Medical University & Tsinghua University; Advisor, Macao FDA & Chinese Academy of Engineering

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yujingyi

Jingyi Yu

Vice Provost and Professor, ShanghaiTech University

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zhangbo

Bo Zhang

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

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zhangchengqi

Chengqi Zhang

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor, University of Technology Sydney; General Chair, IJCAI-2024

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zhanghong

Hong Zhang

Dean of College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University; Distinguished Professor, Zhejiang University

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zhangjianmin

Jian-min Zhang

Professor, Zhejiang University; Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Medical School

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zhangjie

Jie Zhang

Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University

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zhangkang

Kang Zhang

Chair Professor and Vice-Dean for Research, Director of Center for Biomedicine and Innovations, Macau University of Science and Technology

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zhangliangfang

Liangfang Zhang

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor Professor, University of California San Diego

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zhangqian

Qian Zhang

Tencent Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST; Co-director of Huawei-HKUST innovation lab; Director of Digital Life Research Center, HKUST

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zhangtong

Tong Zhang

Chair Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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YaQinZhang

Ya-Qin Zhang

Member, The Chinese Academy of Engineering; Chair Professor, Tsinghua University; Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University

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ruilinzhao

Ruilin Zhao

CEO, Enlight Medical

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zhaoyuliang

Yuliang Zhao

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

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zhoukun

Kun Zhou

Director, State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University

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zhouzhihua

Zhi-Hua Zhou

Professor, Nanjing University; ACM/AAAI/IEEE Fellow

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zhushiqiang

Shiqiang Zhu

Vice President & Professor, Zhejiang University; President, Zhejiang Lab