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Distinguished World Leaders in , Jr., Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer of the , 2009-2012 Recipient, National Medal of for Physical Science Science and Technology Mentoring Aneesh Chopra is a groundbreaking member of the technology Dr. Gates is one of America’s most renowned theoretical . field. Appointed by President , he served as the first In 2013, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Chief Technology Officer of the United States. During his time in and became the first African-American so recognized office, Aneesh designed the National Wireless Initiative, helped in its 150- year history. He is especially known for his work on Delegates Have Included... launch Startup America, and executed an “open innovation” strategy , , and . Dr. Gates is currently a across the government. He is the author of the book, “Innovative State: How New Professor of at ; the Director of the and Particle Technologies Can Transform Government.” Theory Center, and Affiliate Professor of Mathematics. He serves on the U.S. J. , Ph.D. President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, on the National Commission on Forensic Science, and on the Maryland State Board of Education. — THE GRANDg MASTERS — Decoded the Human Recipient, 2009 Presidential National Medal of Science Dean Kamen Dr. Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation John C. Mather, Ph.D. Legendary Inventor Academy Science Director century for his numerous contributions to genomic research. He Winner, 2006 in Physics is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a Dean Kamen is a globally renowned inventor with over 440 U.S. not-for-profit research organization with approximately 300 scientists and staff and foreign patents. His past inventions include the Segway, the Dr. Mather serves as Science Director of the National Academy dedicated to human, microbial, plant, synthetic, and environmental genomic first wearable insulin pump for diabetics, and a water purification of Future Scientists and Technologists. In 2006, he was awarded research, and to the exploration of social and ethical issues in . Dr. Venter system for use in third-world countries that can run on “anything a Nobel Prize for his work, which helped solidify the is also Founder and CEO of Inc., a privately held company that burns,” including manure. Dean and his team are currently working on an theory of the origin of the universe. The following year, TIME dedicated to commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address global needs advanced prosthetic arm that will advance the quality of life for returning injured such as new sources of , new food and nutritional products, and next- magazine named him one of its 100 Most Influential People in the World for his soldiers. He is also the founder of FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of generation vaccines. groundbreaking science. Raised in a family of scientists, Dr. Mather discovered his Science and Technology), a groundbreaking organization dedicated to motivating passion for physics during high school. He is now a senior astrophysicist for NASA, the next generation to understand, use, and enjoy science and technology. best known for his work on cosmic radiation. Dr. Mather is currently the Senior Robert S. Langer, Ph.D. Project Scientist for the James Webb Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Recipient, National Medal of Science Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation Robert M. Metcalfe, Ph.D. Telescope, set to launch in late 2018. Inventor of Ethernet, Founder of 3Com Dr. Langer is a renowned Professor at MIT. He has over 1,100 issued Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation Megan J. Smith and pending patents, which have been licensed or sublicensed to Chief Technology Officer of the United States, 2014-2017 over 300 companies. He is one of a very few individuals elected Dr. Metcalfe is a true internet pioneer and technology giant who to the National Academies of Medicine, Engineering, Sciences, invented Ethernet at the legendary Xerox PARC and founded Megan Smith served as Chief Technology Officer to guide the and Inventors. He is one of four living individuals to receive both the United States 3Com Corporation. In 2005, he received the National Medal of Obama Administration’s information-technology policies and ini- National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Technology and Innovation for his leadership in the invention, tiatives. Previous to assuming her role at the White House, Megan He has also received the Wolf Prize for Chemistry and the Lemelson MIT prize for standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet. Dr. Metcalfe is now Emeritus served as VP of [x], a Google facility that develops the being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine.” Dr. Langer holds 27 Partner at Polaris Venture Partners. He is an MIT Life Trustee Emeritus and a company’s “moonshots,” or high-achieving technological advance- honorary doctorates, including degrees from Harvard and Yale. member of the National Academy of Engineering. ments. She was Vice President of Business Development at Google for nine years and also served as general manager of Google.org, the company’s social impact Cherry Murray, Ph.D. Neil Gershenfeld, Ph.D. arm. Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2009-2014 Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms Recipient, National Medal of Technology and Innovation MIT’s innovative scientist Dr. Gershenfeld is redefning the David Wineland, Ph.D. Dr. Murray, currently Director of the Office of Science for the U.S. Winner, 2012 boundaries between the digital and analog worlds. His Center for Department of Energy, has led some of the nation’s most brilliant Bits and Atoms has developed answers for “what comes next,” Dr. Wineland was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for scientists and engineers as an executive at Bell Laboratories and including Internet 0, a tiny web server that fts into light bulbs the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2002, Discover “groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and doorknobs, networking the physical world in previously and manipulation of individual quantum systems.” His ingenious Magazine named her one of the 50 Most Important Women in Science. She was also awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by the White House unimaginable ways. Dr. Gershenfeld is best known as a pioneer in personal experiments are advancing the possibility of building a super-fast fabrication— small-scale manufacturing enabled by digital technologies, which computer based on quantum physics. Dr. Wineland has worked to increase the in 2014 for contributions to the advancement of devices for telecommunications and the use of light for studying matter, and for leadership in the development gives people the tools to build literally anything they can imagine. precision of atomic , which has now expanded to include the devel- opment of more accurate atomic clocks and demonstrations of the basic building of the STEM workforce in the United States. She is a leading researcher in the study of complex fluids like suspensions, foams, and emulsions, and her work has blocks of a quantum computer. applications for the development of new drug delivery systems. Te National Academy of Future Scientists and Technologists Harvard Square, 1 Mifin Place, Suite 400, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 307-7425 • [email protected] • www.SciTechLeaders.com Marc Raibert, Ph.D. Helen Greiner — YOUNG GENIUSES — Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Boston Dynamics Co-founder of iRobot and CTO of CyPhyWorks

Throughout his career, Dr. Raibert has made vast changes to the Helen Greiner is a groundbreaking innovator, Co-founder of Shree Bose field of robotics. He is CTO and Founder of Boston Dynamics, iRobot, and CTO of CyPhyWorks. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Grand Prize Winner, 2011 Google Science Fair which develops some of the world’s most advanced, dynamic mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science, Co-founder, Piper both from MIT. She has worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory robots, such as BigDog, Atlas, Cheetah, SandFlea and the Shree Bose is the very definition of a leader. Not only did she and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1990, along with AlphaDog. These robots are inspired by the remarkable ability of triumph over 10,000 other competitors to become the grand prize Rodney Brooks and Colin Angle, Helen co-founded iRobot, a robotics company animals to move with agility, mobility, speed, and grace. winner of the first-ever Google Science Fair in 2011, but she is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. The company delivers robots into the also a successful researcher and businesswoman, co-founding industrial, consumer, and military markets. She was one of three people to design Piper—which is developing tool kits to engage students in computer science Amy S. Hess the first version of the iRobot Roomba. Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s Science and technology—at just 22 years old. Shree graduated cum laude from Harvard and Technology Branch University with a bachelor of arts in molecular and cellular biology, and has begun Bill Westenhofer a joint M.D.-Ph.D. program at Duke University. Amy Hess is an FBI Special Agent and Executive Assistant Director Two-time Academy Award Winner for Best Visual Effects of the FBI’s Science and Technology Branch, the single largest Bill Westenhofer, one of the most accomplished and respected branch of the FBI, with over 6,000 employees and a budget of more Jack Andraka visual effects artists today, is the winner of the 2007 and 2013 than half a billion dollars. In this role, she is responsible for the Winner, 2012 Science and Engineering Fair Oscars for Best Visual Effects for “The Golden Compass” and “Life executive oversight of the Criminal Justice Information Services, Laboratory, and of Pi,” respectively. He was Visual Effects Supervisor on 2016’s By the time Jack Andraka was 15 years old, he had already Operational Technology Divisions. “Warcraft.” In 2005, he supervised a team of 400 digital artists on established himself as a breakthrough researcher, creating a “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” which was new diagnostic test for pancreatic that is 28 times faster, , Ph.D. nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. 26,000 times less expensive, and over 100 times more sensitive Winner, 2016 Special in Fundamental Physics than previous tests. Jack leads from the front, demonstrating that Professor of Physics, Emeritus at MIT with passion, focus, and hard work, discovery is not impossible, but completely Mike Rhodin achievable. Jack is currently a sophomore at where he is Dr. Weiss is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Senior Vice President, IBM Watson continuing—and expanding—his research. Technology (MIT). He is known for his pioneering measurements Mike Rhodin heads the Watson division at IBM. Watson is one of the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, his inventions of the monolithic silicon bolometer and the of the most significant innovations in IBM’s 103-year history and Paige Brown interferometer detector, and his roles as a co-founder and an represents a new era of information technology. IBM Watson is Winner, Global Good, 2016 Intel Science Talent Search intellectual leader of both the COBE (microwave background) Project and the charged with accelerating a new class of “cognitive” software, services, and apps that will fuel a diverse cloud-based ecosystem of Paige Brown is the first place medal of distinction winner of the LIGO (gravitational-wave detection) Project. Dr. Weiss is a fellow of the American 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, for her research studying the enterprises, academic institutions, and entrepreneurs. Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and water quality of six environmentally impaired local streams with The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a member of the American high E. coli and phosphate contamination levels. She is currently Astronomical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi. Adam Cheyer developing a cost effective filter largely made of calcium alginate Co-founder of Siri and former Director of Engineering in the iPhone strands to remove the phosphate from storm water systems. Paige is currently Rana El Kaliouby, Ph.D. Group at Apple studying chemical engineering at Stanford University. Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Affectiva Adam Cheyer is one of this nation’s most impressive engineers. Dr. Kaliouby’s work at Affectiva, an MIT spin-off, brings Emotional He was co-founder and VP Engineering at Siri, Inc., before it Eric Chen Artificial Intelligence to digital devices. Her work has appeared was acquired by Apple in 2010, when he became a Director of First Place, 2014 Intel Science Talent Search Competition in The New Yorker, Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, The Wall Street Engineering in the iPhone/iOS group. As a researcher, Adam has Grand Prize Winner, 2013 Google Science Fair Journal, , CNN, CBS, TIME, and Fortune. authored 60 publications and has 25 issued patents. Grand Prize Winner, 2013 Siemens Competition A TED speaker, she was also named in Wired’s NEXT list of 25 Eric Chen is the master of science fairs, winning all three major geniuses who will change how we do business, 2012 Technology Review’s “Top Sheldon Glashow, Ph.D. science prizes for his research on new drugs designed to fight Winner, 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics 35 Innovators Under 35,” Entrepreneur’s “7 Most Powerful Women To Watch In dangerous strains of the influenza virus. Eric’s intelligence, love for 2014”, Ad Age’s “40 under 40,” was inducted into the “Women in Engineering” Dr. Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who received computer modeling and biological studies, and amazing heart are evident to each Hall of Fame, and recipient of Smithsonian magazine’s 2015 American Ingenuity the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the electroweak person he meets. Not only is he an incredibly relatable role model, he is a pioneer Award for Technology. theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the in the directionality of the future of effective medical treatments. weak force. Dr. Glashow also developed theories regarding quarks, or elementary particles, and is credited with advancing our understanding of these particles with the proposal of a new quark called a charm. 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