• TR100 Honorees (Alphabetical List)
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TR100 Honorees Alphabetical List

Guillermo Ameer
Helene Andersson
John Apostolopoulos
Scott Backhaus
Zhenan Bao
Geoffrey Barrows
Serafim Batzoglou
Brian Behlendorf
Sangeeta Bhatia
Marcela Bilek
Daniel Bond
Alexis Borisy
Jud Bowman
Michael Bowman
Cynthia Breazeal
Colin Bulthaup
Karen Burg
Eugene Chan
Ian Clarke
Lorrie Cranor
Bassil Dahiyat
Benjamin G. Davis
Andr DeHon
Xiangfeng Duan
Christophe Echeverri
Stephen Empedocles
Vladislav Gavrilets
Scott Gaynor
Michael E. Gertner
Daniel Gottesman
Jay Groves
Kathryn Guarini
Vic Gundotra
Cary Gunn
Justin Hanes
Andrew Heafitz
Jason Hill
Steven Hofmeyr
Mike Horton
Meg Hourihan
Ayanna Howard
Yu Huang
Paul Q. Judge
Jordan Katine
Andre Koltermann
Krishna Kumar
Erin Lavik
Kevin Lee
Rasmus Lerdorf
Desmond Lim
Lih Y. Lin
Xiangjun Liu
Anthony Lowman
David M. Lynn
Gavin MacBeath
Paul Meyer
David A. Muller
Yasunobu Nakamura
Balaji Narasimhan
Michael O’Connor
Ravikanth Pappu
Sanjay Parekh
Joe Pompei
Jovan Popovic
Vipul Ved Prakash
Nimmi Ramanujam
Ainissa G. Ramirez
Thomas Reardon
Christian Rehtanz
Torsten Reil
Heike Riel
Maximilian Riesenhuber
Linda Rottenberg
Shuvo Roy
Ram Samudrala
Ted Sargent
Christophe Schilling
Mark Schnitzer
Mijail Serruya
Tim Sibley
Micah Siegel
Reuben Singh
Manfred Stefener
Claire Tomlin
Giovanni Traverso
Stephen Turner
Rita Vanbever
Alex Vasilescu
S. Travis Waller
Martin Wattenberg
Ralf Wehrspohn
Ron Weiss
Jennifer West
Andrew Wheeler
Lorraine Wheeler
Evan Williams
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
Peidong Yang
Jennifer Yates
Daphne Zohar

TR100 Honorees By Field

Computing
Barrows, Geoffrey
Batzoglou, Serafim
Breazeal, Cynthia
Clarke, Ian
DeHon, Andr
Gottesman, Daniel
Guarini, Kathryn
Gundrota, Vic
Heafitz, Andrew
Hofmeyr, Steven
Horton, Mike
Howard, Ayanna
Lee, Kevin
Lim, Desmond
O’Connor, Michael
Pompei, Joe
Popovic, Jovan
Prakash, Vipul Ved
Reardon, Thomas
Reil, Torsten
Riel, Heike
Riesenhuber, Maximilian
Rottenberg, Linda
Sargent, Ted
Sibley, Tim
Vasilescu, Alex
Wheeler, Lorraine
Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi

Biotech and Medicine
Ameer, Guillermo
Andersson, Helene
Bhatia, Sangeeta
Borisy, Alexis
Chan, Eugene
Dahiyat, Bassil
Davis, Benjamin G.
Echeverri, Christophe
Gertner, Michael E.
Groves, Jay
Hanes, Justin
Koltermann, Andre
Lavik, Erin
Liu, Xiangjun
Lowman, Anthony
MacBeath, Gavin
Ramanujam, Nimmi
Roy, Shuvo
Samudrala, Ram
Schilling, Christophe
Schnitzer, Mark
Serruya, Mijail
Siegel, Micah
Traverso, Giovanni
Vanbever, Rita
Weiss, Ron
West, Jennifer
Zohar, Daphne

Internet
Apostolopoulos, John
Behlendorf, Brian
Bowman, Jud
Cranor, Lorrie
Hill, Jason
Hourihan, Meg
Judge, Paul Q.
Lerdorf, Rasmus
Lin, Lih Y.
Meyer, Paul
Parekh, Sanjay
Singh, Reuben
Wattenberg, Martin
Wheeler, Andrew
Williams, Evan
Yates, Jennifer

Nanotech
Backhaus, Scott
Bao, Zhenan
Bilek, Marcela
Bond, Daniel
Bowman, Michael
Bulthaup, Colin
Burg, Karen
Duan, Xiangfeng
Empedocles, Stephen
Gavrilets, Vladislav
Gaynor, Scott
Gunn, Cary
Huang, Yu
Katine, Jordan
Kumar, Krishna
Lynn, David M.
Muller, David A.
Nakamura, Yasunobu
Narasimhan, Balaji
Pappu, Ravikanth
Ramirez, Ainissa G.
Rehtanz, Christian
Stefener, Manfred
Tomlin, Claire
Turner, Stephen
Waller, S. Travis
Wehrspohn, Ralf
Yang, Peidong

TR100 Judges

David Baltimore
President, California Institute of Technology
Nobel laureate, physiology or medicine

Gordon Bell
Senior researcher, Microsoft Media Presence Research Group

Rodney Brooks
Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Joseph Cargnelli*
Cofounder, vice president of technology, Hydrogenics

Vinton G. Cerf
Senior vice president for architecture and technology, MCI

James Collins*
Professor of biomedical engineering, Boston University

R. John Hansman
Professor of aeronautics and astronautics, MIT

Joseph Jacobson*
Associate professor, MIT Media Laboratory

Philippe Janson
Senior technical staff member, IBM Academy of Technology, Zurich

Christine Karman
Founder, Izecom and Tryllian, the Netherlands

Kara M. Kockelman*
Assistant professor of civil engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Christina Lampe-Onnerud*
Director of power technologies, Tiax

Robert S. Langer
Professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, MIT

Richard K. Lester
Director, Industrial Performance Center, MIT

Robert W. Lucky
Retired vice president of applied research, Telcordia Technologies

Tod Machover
Professor of music and media, MIT Media Laboratory

Robert M. Metcalfe
General partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Founder, 3Com

Chad Mirkin
Professor of chemistry, Northwestern University

Cherry Murray
Senior vice president, Physical Sciences Research, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Stephen R. Quake*
Associate professor of applied physics and physics, California Institute of Technology

Dari Shalon*
Partner, Shalon Ventures

Phillip A. Sharp
MIT Institute Professor and director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Nobel laureate, physiology or medicine

George M. Whitesides
Professor of chemistry, Harvard University

Ethan Zuckerman*
Cofounder, Geekcorps

*Former TR100 honoree

TR100 Contributors

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