Yearly, MIT Know-how Assessment acknowledges 35 younger innovators who’re doing pioneering work throughout a variety of technical fields together with biotechnology, supplies science, synthetic intelligence, computing, and extra. 

We’re now taking nominations for our 2025 record and you’ll submit one right here. The method takes just some minutes. Nominations will shut at 11:59 PM ET on January 20, 2025. You possibly can nominate your self or somebody you recognize, primarily based anyplace on the planet. The one rule is that the nominee have to be beneath the age of 35 on October 1, 2025.  

We wish to hear about individuals who have made excellent contributions to their fields and are making an early influence of their careers. Maybe they’ve led an necessary scientific advance, based an organization that’s addressing an pressing drawback, or found a brand new technique to deploy an current know-how that improves folks’s lives. 

If you wish to nominate somebody, it’s best to establish a transparent advance or innovation for which they’re primarily accountable. We search to focus on innovators whose breakthroughs are broad in scope and whose affect reaches past their speedy scientific communities. 

The 2025 class of innovators will be a part of a protracted record of distinguished honorees. We featured Lisu Su, now CEO of AMD, when she was 32 years outdated; Andrew Ng, a pc scientist and serial entrepreneur, made the record in 2008 when he was an assistant professor at Stanford. That very same 12 months, we featured 31-year-old Jack Dorsey—two years after he launched Twitter. And Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot, was on the record in 1999.

Know somebody who needs to be on our 2025 record? We’d love to listen to about them. Submit your nomination right this moment or go to our FAQ to be taught extra.