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2008 TR35 Judges

August 19, 2008

Angela Belcher*
Professor of materials science and engineering and of biological engineering,
MIT

David Berry*
Principal,
Flagship Ventures

J. J. Cadiz*
Program manager, Incubation Group,
Microsoft Research

George Candea*
Assistant professor of computer and communication sciences,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Yet-Ming Chiang
Professor of ceramics,
MIT

George Daley
Associate professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School

Drew Endy
Assistant professor of b­iological engineering,
MIT

Claire Gmachl*
Associate professor of electrical engineering,
PrincetonUniversity

Irene Greif
IBM Fellow; director, C­ollaborative User Experience Group,
IBM Watson Research Center

J. Karl Hedrick
Professor of mechanical engineering; director, Vehicle Dynamics Lab,
University of California, Berkeley

Brian Hughes
Chairman and product engineer,
HBN Shoe

Steven Koonin
Chief scientist,
BP

Håkon Wium Lie*
Chief technology officer,
Opera Software

Nick McKeown
Associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science,
StanfordUniversity

Chad Mirkin*
Professor of chemistry, of medicine, and of material sciences and engineering; director, International Institute for Nanotechnology,
NorthwesternUniversity

Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Professor of electrical and computer engineering; director, Winlab,
RutgersUniversity

Mark Reed
Professor of engineering and applied science; associate director, Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Qu­antum Engineering,
YaleUniversity

Kevin Rose*
Founder and chief architect,
Digg

Joshua Schachter*
Founder,
Del.icio.us

Bjarne Stroustrup
Professor of computer science,
Texas A&M University

Lisa Su*
Chief technology officer,
Freescale Semiconductor

Edwin Thomas
Professor of materials science and engineering,
MIT

James M. Tour
Professor of chemistry, of computer science, and of mechanical engineering and materials science,
RiceUniversity

Sophie Vandebroek
Chief technology officer; president, Xerox In­­novation Group,
Xerox

David Victor
Professor of law; director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development,
StanfordUniversity

Jennifer West*
Professor of bioengineerin­g,
RiceUniversity

Ben Zhao*
Assistant professor of computer science,
University of California, Santa Barbara

*Past TR100/TR35 honoree

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