The jury chose 15 innovators, both male and female, to receive the “Innovators Under 35” award in its sixth edition.

MIT Technology Review Arabia announced the winners of the prestigious “Innovators Under 35” Middle East and North Africa (MENA) award, which is an award organized by MIT Technology Review Arabia, one of the Majarra platforms. This award aims to honor exceptional innovators, male and female, who have made notable contributions in their fields of expertise. The winners of the 2023 edition presented innovations or studies that contribute to improving people’s quality of life and making a positive impact on the world around them.

This year, a large number of candidates applied for the award in various fields such as technology, biotechnology, computer science, programming, medicine, energy, environment, etc., and the jury, consisting of prominent experts and specialists from various sectors, evaluated all of these applications to determine their feasibility and social value.

Winners of the 2023 edition of the “Innovators Under 35” Award

Nominees' applications for the sixth edition of the Innovators Under 35 Award were evaluated by https://technologyreview.ae/committee-of-judges-of-the-sixth-innovators-under-35-award/ 13 prominent and independent judges of technology experts, entrepreneurs and academics affiliated with the centers Research, technology companies and famous universities around the world. Based on their evaluation, MIT Technology Review Arabia selected 15 male and female innovators to win the award this year.

The list of winners this year included 7 female innovators and 8 male innovators, and the United Arab Emirates emerged as the country of residence for 40% of the winners, followed by the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This year, the award was won by innovators holding the nationalities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Syria, Egypt and Sudan.

Here are the winners of the sixth edition of the Innovators Under 35 Award from MIT Technology Review Arabic:

1. Hadeel Elayan: Jordanian, postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University. Her innovation involves using terahertz electromagnetic waves to sense and control protein folding using plasmonic nanoantennas, allowing for a higher level of understanding and manipulation of biological processes. This revolutionary methodology not only bridges the gap between artificial technologies and biological systems, but also opens up new possibilities in nanocommunications.

1. Hamed Al-Balawi: Saudi, PhD candidate, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, his innovation revolves around using 3D printing to accelerate coral recovery and improve bone regeneration to find creative solutions to deal with medical and environmental challenges. Hamed's innovation offers a promising approach to improving bone healing and accelerating coral recovery, renewing hopes for improving medical treatment and saving threatened ecosystems.

1. Jad Kabbara: Lebanese, research scientist at MIT, created an artificial intelligence tool to understand societal dialogue more broadly. The primary motivation for his work is to search for new means, alternatives to social media platforms, to engage people in civil dialogue and civil interaction within a safe and respectful environment built on trust, and to use artificial intelligence to automate the process of understanding the resulting dialogues.

1. Salam Khalifa: Sudanese, PhD candidate at Stony Brook University. Her work revolves around cognitively driven computer modeling of Arabic morphology. Salam’s innovation involves starting from a simplified, general model for learning different aspects of Arabic morphology using as little data as possible. By generalizing the model to one dialect, it can work for another nearby dialect, and exceptions can be analyzed and studied. The model is then used to create techniques that can be easily used in Arabic language processing pathways and in other aspects of computational linguistics.

1. Walaa Khushaim: A Saudi postdoctoral research fellow at MIT, who invented a miniature, easy-to-use diagnostic device capable of quickly and accurately detecting vital signs in heart attack patients. The uniqueness of this system lies in its ability to quickly detect several critical heart indicators within 15 minutes, which provides high sensitivity for early and accurate diagnosis of heart attacks and heart diseases. It is also characterized by its easy-to-use design, eliminating the need for expert intervention.

1. Danny Qissa: Syrian, artificial intelligence research scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States of America, Danny worked on developing an artificial intelligence system to provide automated feedback and evaluations to surgeons about their performance. This system is able to reliably assess the level of a comprehensive set of skills, explains the reasons for the assessment, and is fair in providing its assessments.

1. Muhannad Al-Khudary: Palestinian, PhD candidate, University of Oxford, created Hytwin: an artificial intelligence-based digital twin to assess the development of high blood pressure through multi-modality medical imaging of the body’s organs. This tool is integrated into software that is easy to use and convenient for non-technical users, and provides easy-to-read visual explanations, allowing for simple and easy application within the clinical setting.

1. Obada Sabbagh: A Syrian neuroscientist at MIT who has developed new biological tools to study psychiatric disorders. He used gene-editing methods such as CRISPR to build two new genetic tools to obtain data from brain cells located in an area called the thalamus, and manipulate... with these cells. These tools were not previously available to the scientific community. In addition, these tools provide access to types of brain neurons that have never been studied before.

1. Hoda Farahat: Lebanese, research assistant, American University of Beirut, invented a biosensor capable of measuring and monitoring blood sugar levels remotely and with high accuracy via a pair of earrings. This innovation is distinguished by its ability to sense changes in blood sugar continuously and remotely without Contact. This innovation can be expanded to develop other wearable accessories and link them all together in a network of on-body sensors.

1. Hessa Al-Falahi: An Emirati, doctoral candidate at Khalifa University, she created an application based on artificial intelligence that simulates a stethoscope for early diagnosis of depression and Parkinson’s disease using typing data on smartphones. The “Type of Mode” smartphone application aims to analyze users’ natural interactions with... Keyboard to detect psychomotor problems associated with depression.

1. Yazan Ibrahim: Palestinian, research assistant at the Water Research Center at New York University Abu Dhabi, developed water filtration membranes with a surface pattern to improve water permeability and resistance to sediment formation on the membranes. This innovative method not only solves the intractable problem of pollution, but also improves the effectiveness and stability of operations. Thin film based water treatment.

1. Asma Jarad: Lebanese, postdoctoral research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi, has invented an advanced water filter that features molecularly designed active layers of symbiotic organic frameworks to efficiently eliminate emerging pollutants, including eternal chemical pollutants. Unlike specialized filters that only remove emerging contaminants, the Asmaa method ensures a comprehensive solution, avoiding competition with conventional filters necessary to remove common contaminants.

1. Hazem Ibrahim: Egyptian, PhD candidate at NYU Abu Dhabi, working on building frameworks to test the impact of generative AI in higher education. Hazem has pioneered the study of GPT chat detectors in the context of university assessment processes, as well as the methods used to modify his texts in order to avoid detection. During this process, Hazem worked with several government officials and experts in education studies to help guide educational policies.

1. Hend Mohamed: Egyptian, research scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, has developed a zero-emission, self-sustainable technology that converts industrial wastewater into green energy. This technology significantly reduces the capital cost of microbial fuel cell technology by 50%, paving the way for commercial investment worldwide to produce self-sustainable green energy. This revolutionary green technology promises a positive economic and environmental impact globally.

1. Wael Othman: A Syrian, postdoctoral research fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi, created LaparoSense, an advanced sensory system to overcome the challenges of laparoscopic surgery. This tool will increase the level of safety during surgery by preventing tissue damage and improving the diagnostic process through... Detect tumors and infections accurately.

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About the “Innovators Under 35” Award

The “Innovators Under 35” Middle East and North Africa Award is an annual event held by MIT Technology Review Arabia since 2018, and it is the regional version of the global award that has been organized by MIT Technology Review since 1999, and has been won by international names such as Mark Zuckerberg, founder of MIT. Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google.

The award aims to celebrate the most important and prominent innovators, male and female, under the age of 35, who have presented interesting inventions and studies.

Since its inception in 2018 until now, 70 innovators from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Oman, Turkey, the United States of America, and Bangladesh have won the award.

It is worth noting that three from The winners Innovators Award _ Below 35" East Middle And north Africa For 2019 they won Also in copy Globalism from the prize In 2020 , they are Emirati Ghina Al Hinai, Palestinian Omar Abu Dayyeh, and Tunisian Muhammad Dhawafi.

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