Forbes Honors 30 from MIT in Under 30 List
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Thirty members of the MIT community have made it onto Forbes’ prestigious list of “30 Under 30”—people under 30 years old who are changing the world in fields ranging from energy to finance, and from AI to social impact.
“With the expansion across AI, technology, social media, and other industries, the honorees on this year’s list are pushing the boundaries and building their brands beyond traditional scopes,” said Alexandra York, editor for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, in announcing the list earlier this month. “Our Under 30 class of 2025 proves that you can never begin your career journey too early.”
Visit the Forbes 30 Under 30 website to see who was honored in all 20 categories (each of which has 30 honorees) and to learn more about those from MIT who were recognized—including 21 alumni. Also, check out how MIT did last year.
Forbes 2025 30 Under 30: MIT Community Members
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Mohammad Alkhadra SM ’22, PhD ’22 (Energy & Green Tech)
Founder, Lithios
Lithios is developing disruptive technology for low-cost lithium extraction.
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Sualeh Asif ’22, Arvid Lunnemark ’22, Aman Sanger ’22, Michael Truell ’22 (AI)
Cofounders, Anysphere
Anysphere, more recognizably known as Cursor, is building an AI “Google Docs for programmers” that engineers can use to write and tweak code.
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Dániel Barabási (Science)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Broad Institute
Barabási’s research applies neuroevolutionary principles to create self-designing neural networks.
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Baptiste Bouvier ’22, Hannah Collins ’22 (Manufacturing & Industry)
Cofounders, DiploAI
DiploAI is an AI-powered software company that collects and analyzes regulatory information for automotive manufacturers.
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Kathleen Brandes ’19 (Manufacturing & Industry)
Cofounder, Adagy Robotics
Adagy Robotics provides 24/7 monitoring and remote intervention to fix robotics problems.
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Zoë Bentley (Education)
Accessibility Lead, MIT Media Lab
Bentley co-created OctoStudio, an app that teaches children—including those with low vision and who use screen readers—to code.
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Sylvia Biscoveanu PhD ’23 (Science)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Northwestern University
Biscoveanu studies gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by cosmic events like merging black holes and neutron stars.
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Scout Brisson ’17 (Food & Drink)
CEO, De Soi
De Soi, which makes sophisticated non-alcoholic aperitifs, was cofounded by pop star Katy Perry and master distiller Morgan McLachlan.
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Justin Carrus ’17, SM ’18 (Manufacturing & Industry)
Cofounder, Perygee
Perygee provides data automation software for industrial manufacturers.
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Michelle Chao ’17 (Manufacturing & Industry)
Cofounder, Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is harvesting rare earth metals—which are needed for electric vehicles and other electric devices—from waste products.
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Naroa Coretti Sánchez, Graduate Student (Transportation & Mobility)
PhD Candidate, MIT
Coretti Sánchez has developed an autonomous bicycle that would operate as part of a mobility-on-demand service.
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Akshaj Kadaveru ’22, Daniel Sun ’22 (Education)
Cofounders, MathDash
MathDash is a gaming website that pits users against each other in math problem-solving.
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Maxwell L’Etoile PhD ’22 (Energy & Green Tech)
Cofounder, Aluminio
Aluminio is developing manufacturing equipment that can replace more than 85 percent of the silver in solar cells with base metals.
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Nan Li (Science)
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT
Li is working on implantable devices that can stick to tissues inside the body without stitches, staples, or glue.
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Shucong Li (Science)
Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT
Li pioneered a platform of responsive materials, which is being used to help realize fundamentally new types of soft robotics.
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Paul Liang (Science)
Assistant Professor, MIT
Liang has laid the theoretical foundations that enable AI to understand content, infer human intents, and navigate social interactions.
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Jorge Diego Martin Rufino (Science)
Scientist, Broad Institute
Martin Rufino led pioneering work enabling scientists to make hundreds of direct genetic edits to blood stem cells, which could lead to improved leukemia therapies.
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Nischal Nadhamuni ’18 (AI)
Cofounder, Klarity
Klarity is aimed at automating document and data review. Nadhamuni met his cofounder, Andrew Antos, in an MIT entrepreneur class.
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Smriti Pandey (Healthcare)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Broad Institute
Pandey has made significant contributions to advancing genome editing tools. Her technologies are currently being advanced for clinical use.
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Sanjana Paul, Graduate Student (Energy & Green Tech)
Cofounder, Earth Hacks
Earth Hacks is an environmental hackathon organization that has engaged more than 5,000 participants worldwide.
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Elizabeth Raman-Grubbs MASc ’20 (Transportation & Mobility)
Founder, Supply Chain Gals
Raman-Grubbs founded Supply Chain Gals to help other women early in their careers find their footing in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
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Uma Roy ’19, MEng ’19 (Finance)
Cofounder and CEO, Succinct
Succinct is making zero-knowledge proofs accessible to developers without deep cryptographic expertise. Zero-knowledge proofs enable verification of sensitive information without exposing the underlying data.
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Anna Sun ’23 (AI)
Cofounder, Nowadays
Nowadays is an AI-based events planner. Sun says users input details about an event, and an AI bot contacts venues and negotiates deals.
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Tiffany Yeh ’17 (Social Impact)
Founder, Eztia
Yeh started Eztia Corp to develop and commercialize a passive cooling material that’s powered by water instead of electricity. The company's first product is a lightweight wearable that could prevent heat-related illnesses.
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Yang Zhong SM ’21, Graduate Student (Energy & Green Tech)
Founder, WeNexus
WeNexus has devised a “black box” water desalination system that uses heat from the sun to turn seawater into drinking water.
