- Guillermo Ameer
- Synthesized "biorubbers" that could replace damaged heart and lung tissue and rebuild blood vessels
- Helene Andersson
- Produces portable, inexpensive, microprocessor-size labs for research and industry
- John Apostolopoulos
- Develops ways to improve the security of streaming video on the Net
- Scott Backhaus
- Invented a novel, high-efficiency engine powered by sound waves
- Zhenan Bao
- Fabricates organic semiconductors used in flexible and cheap electronic devices
- Geoffrey Barrows
- Gives unmanned reconnaissance planes insect vision
- Serafim Batzoglou
- Devises powerful tools for assembling and analyzing genomes
- Brian Behlendorf
- Sparked the widespread development of Web servers, mainstreaming the nascent Web
- Sangeeta Bhatia
- Uses microchip-manufacturing tools to build artificial livers
- Marcela Bilek
- Designs coatings to improve implanted medical devices and industrial tools
- Daniel Bond
- Turns sea muck into fuel cell power plants
- Alexis Borisy
- Believes that combining different drugs could yield better ways to fight disease
- Michael Bowman
- Builds microturbines that could become the power plant of choice in many settings
- Jud Bowman
- Wrote software that is accelerating the expansion of wireless networking
- Cynthia Breazeal
- Constructs robots whose expressive faces convey humanlike emotions
- Colin Bulthaup
- Developed new fabrication methods that could slash the cost of chip manufacturing
- Karen Burg
- Engineered a minimally invasive process to rebuild tissue for breast cancer survivors
- Eugene Chan
- Aims to speed genome sequencing with a machine that reads DNA letter by letter
- Ian Clarke
- Pioneered software that delivers Web files quickly, anonymously
- Lorrie Cranor
- Leads the global effort to improve privacy practices and tools on the Web
- Bassil Dahiyat
- Designs proteins from scratch to create new medicine
- Benjamin G. Davis
- Manipulates biological sugars for more precise drug delivery
- Andre DeHon
- Designs architectures needed to build practical molecular computers
- Xiangfeng Duan
- Transforms nanowires into incredibly small transistors for powerful, flexible computers
- Christophe Echeverri
- Develops fast, automated processes for figuring out genes functions
- Stephen Empedocles
- Formulates business strategy for one of nanotechs leading startups
- Vladislav Gavrilets
- Designs flight control technology that could lead to unmanned autonomous helicopters
- Scott Gaynor
- Devises processes used to make polymers with improved properties
- Michael E. Gertner
- Set out to improve the tiny devices that keep once blocked arteries open
- Daniel Gottesman
- Works to improve quantum computers so they can speed drug design and perform other massive computing tasks
- Jay Groves
- Patented a lab-on-a-chip to investigate call proteins that cause diseases
- Kathryn Guarini
- Fabricates three-dimensional integrated circuits that could vastly increase computer power
- Vic Gundotra
- Sparked Microsofts change to .Net
- Cary Gunn
- Shrinks optical circuitry to speed transmissions on phone and Internet networks
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- Justin Hanes
- Creates systems for delivering drugs to where theyre needed in the body
- Andrew Heafitz
- Invented inexpensive rocket-based surveillance systems
- Jason Hill
- Wrote software that allows hundreds of minute wireless sensors to communicate better
- Steven Hofmeyr
- Devised software that roots out security threats to a networks operating system
- Mike Horton
- Engineers tiny sensors that can be spread like crumbs around a battlefield or factory
- Meg Hourihan
- Sparked the rise of the popular Web-based journals known as blogs
- Ayanna Howard
- Writes programs that more intelligently guide actions of robots
- Yu Huang
- Fashions three-dimensional grids of nanowires that act as electronic circuits
- Paul Q. Judge
- Wrote software that stops spam and viruses before they enter a network
- Jordan Katrine
- Makes higher-density hard drives using magnetic nanomaterials
- Andre Koltermann
- Speeds protein evolution to improve detergents, medicines, and foods
- Krishna Kumar
- Improves the stability and effectiveness of protein-based drugs
- Erin Lavik
- Helped paralyzed rats walk again and aims to do the same for people
- Kevin Lee
- Integrates photonics and electronics on chips to speed telecommunications
- Rasmus Lerdorf
- Invented a server language that brought live data to the Web
- Desmond Lim
- Develops high-volume manufacturing lines for making optical chips into commodities
- Lih Y. Lin
- Built micromirror switches for faster, all-optical telecommunications networks
- Xiangjun Liu
- Maps gene variations that could warn of future disease
- Anthony Lowman
- Packs insulin into gel pills that could replace injections for diabetes patients
- David M. Lynn
- Synthesizes polymers that are better able to deliver therapeutic genes
- Gavin Macbeath
- Unravels complex biological systems in his search for new drugs
- Paul Meyer
- Brings database and Web-like services to remote areas through touch-tone phones
- David A. Muller
- Images the individual atom that are critical to a transistors electronic properties
- Yasunobu Nakamura
- Achieved a breakthrough that could help make quantum computing a reality
- Balaji Narasimhan
- Devises time-release polymers to replace multiple vaccine injections
- Michael OConnor
- Designed an automated tractor steering system that is saving farmers bushels of money
- Ravikanth Pappu
- Fights credit card forgery with glass-bead “keys”
- Sanjay Parekh
- Develops software that lets companies tailor services to their customers locations
- Joe Pompei
- Delivers "spotlights" of sound for use in concerts, museums, and automobiles
- Jovan Popovic
- Makes simpler, more powerful animation tools for novices and professionals
- Vipul Ved Prakash
- Developed free and commercial software filters that fight spam
- Nimmi Ramanujam
- Uses light to help make diagnosing breast cancer and cervical cancer faster, more accurate and less invasive
- Ainissa G. Ramirez
- Formulated an advanced universal solder for electronics and optics
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- Thomas Reardon
- Tailors Internet application to cell phones
- Christian Rehtanz
- Adds smarts to high-voltage power lines so they can deliver more electricity
- Torsten Reil
- Employs simulations of human movement to create realistically animated characters
- Heike Riel
- Built large, bright, organic video displays using materials dismissed by contemporaries
- Maximilian Riesenhuber
- Programs computers to recognize objects the way the human brain does
- Linda Rottenberg
- Helps entrepreneurs in emerging nations turn innovations into business
- Shuvo Roy
- Builds tiny machines that can warn of impending heart attack and monitor healing after surgery
- Ram Samudrala
- Wrote algorithms that can predict the functions of proteins from the sequence of a genome
- Ted Sargent
- Fashions photonic circuits that could speed voice and data to homes
- Christophe Schilling
- Transforms microbes into fine-tuned manufacturing machines
- Mark Schnitzer
- Sheds light on the functioning of individual brain cells
- Mijail Serruya
- Connects brains directly to computers int he hope of helping paralyzed people communicate and control robotic aids
- Tim Sibley
- Serves up customized audio and video gems
- Micah Siegel
- Transforms research from universities and national labs into successful startups
- Rueben Singh
- Provides support services and startup money for entrepreneurs
- Manfred Stefener
- Constructs small fuel cells to efficiently power laptop computers
- Claire Tomlin
- Writes software that could alleviate air congestion and lead to far fewer delays at airports
- Giovanni Traverso
- Came up with a noninvasive alternative to colonoscopy
- Stephen Turner
- Built a tiny device that greatly speeds up DNA sequencing
- Rita Vanbever
- Wants to make treating diabetes as easy as breathing
- Alex Vasilescu
- Transforms computers ability to recognize human faaces
- S. Travis Waller
- Writes algorithms that determine why traffic jams form and how to ease them
- Martin Wattenberg
- Simplifies peoples electronic lives with graphical data management
- Ralf Wehrspohn
- Fabricates nanotube crystals that can route optical telecommunications signals faster than competing chips
- Ron Weiss
- Programs living cells to sense toxins ot create replacement tissues
- Jennifer West
- Synthesizes blood vessels that could reduce the trauma of heart surgery
- Andrew Wheeler
- Builds wireless sensor networks that improve industrial efficiency
- Lorraine Wheeler
- Codes software that makes handheld computers handier
- Evan Williams
- Fueled the expansion of blogs across the Web
- Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
- Builds brain-imaging machines that are faster and cheaper than magnetic-resonance imaging equipment
- Peidong Yang
- Assembles nanowires that could revolutionize lasers and computers
- Jennifer Yates
- Wrote software widely adopted by the telecom industry that speeds up optical networks
- Daphne Zohar
- Spots promising biotech work and helps build new companies to commercialize it
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