A Manchester girl has made it to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list released this year. Researcher from the University of Manchester’s Graphene Research Institute, Radha Boya is named second on the list under the category for Inventors. A Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Manchester, Boya got the award for developing the world's narrowest fluid channel, which could transform filtration of water and gases. She created nano fluidic channels using graphene.
Boyas' current work at Manchester is related to atomic scale capillaries with 2D materials. She has published 37 papers including those in Nature and Science journals, and holds 3 patents. This year, she received the L’Oreal-UNESCO fellowship for women in science. Also in the list that hosts “exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world”, are two other females of Indian-origin.
Neha Narkhede, co-founder of a Palo Alto start up- Confluent Inc., won the award under the Visionaries category. Her start up builds Apache Kafka tools to help companies make sense of data. Narkhede, who worked as an engineer at LinkedIn, helped invent the open-source software platform to quickly process data from things like user clicks and profile updates.
A researcher at John Hopkins University, Suchi Saria got the Innovators Under 35 award under the ‘Humanitarians’ category for “putting existing medical data to work to predict sepsis risk”. Saria was recognised for her efforts to write algorithms to analyze patient data and correctly predict septic shock in 85% of cases--a 60% improvement over existing screening tests. Organised by MIT Technology Review since 1999, the prestigious Innovators Under 35 competition has honoured some of the world’s most brilliant minds such as Mark Zuckerberg, JB Straubel, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
