2012 TR35 Judges
Selecting Technology Review’s yearly list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 is a difficult but rewarding process. We search for candidates around the world who are opening up new possibilities in technology, and then we seek the advice of a panel of expert judges before finally selecting the winners.
Ed Boyden*
Leader, Synthetic Neurobiology Group, MIT
Yet-Ming Chiang
Professor of ceramics, MIT
James J. Collins*
Professor of biomedical engineering, Boston University
Stephen H. Friend
President, co-founder, and director, Sage Bionetworks
Javier García-Martínez*
Professor of inorganic chemistry, University of Alicante
Eric Horvitz
Scientist and managing director, Microsoft Research
Alex Huang*
Director, FREEDM Systems Center, North Carolina State University
Ed Lazowska
Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering, University of Washington
Johnny Chung Lee*
Human-Computer Interaction researcher, Google
Christopher B. Murray*
Professor of chemistry, materials science, and engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Dipankar Raychaudhuri
Professor II and director of Winlab, Rutgers University
Chris R. Somerville
Director, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Nimmi Ramanujam*
Professor of biomedical engineering, Duke University
John Rogers*
Professor of materials science, engineering, and chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phillip A. Sharp
Institute professor, MIT
Bjarne Stroustrup
Professor and college of engineering chair in computer science, Texas A&M University
Jennifer West*
Professor of bioengineering, chemical, and biomolecular engineering, Rice University
Paul Wicks*
Director of research and development, PatientsLikeMe
Jackie Ying*
Executive director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
Ben Y. Zhao*
Associate professor of computer science, University of California, Santa Barbara
*Past TR100/TR35 honoree