Meet 7 Young Scientists Who Will Make You Hopeful For The Future

Young minds are the sharpest. Here are some young scientists who are making big changes in the world.

In Tianjin, 52 Young Scientists are invited to discuss the topic of "Shaping Innovative Society in the Fourth Industrial" at this year's Annual Gathering of New Champions. Taken as a whole, they may make you optimistic about our collective future. Read on to know them all.

Soren Hauberg

The concentration on performance in current AI research has the potential downside of hiding the system's underlying workings, leading to incorrect judgments that humans cannot understand. Soren is working on algorithms to determine the motivations behind an intelligent system's actions to foster more public confidence in the increasingly autonomous systems that are making choices on our behalf.

Fiona Beck

In the process of transporting energy from its original location to its final destination—your home—a significant amount of that energy is wasted. At the nano-scale, Fiona is working to transform light into different types of energy to create solar fuels & photodetection systems with improved functionality, such as the ability to store and transmit energy from renewable sources more effectively.

Rona Chandrawati

Suppose a sophisticated label on the food could inform us whether or not it's tainted. Since over 600 million people become ill and over 420,000 die every year due to food contamination, Rona's research seeks to build nanotechnology sensors to facilitate the early identification of life-threatening illnesses and to inform consumers.

Daniel Hurtado

Daniel is creating a wearable sensor that tracks a patient's respiration in real time using computational modeling. An early warning system for potentially fatal respiratory problems, many of which arise after surgery, may be created using this method. Additional goals of his study include the development of unique instruments for the early diagnosis of chronic illnesses and acute medical disorders, as well as new technologies that could be scaled and deployed rapidly by the medical business.

Pierre Karam

Pierre is working to monitor and manage waterborne and infectious illnesses in real-time in low-resource areas by integrating biosensors into cell phones. If made available to rescuers, this might help determine the origin of epidemics and speed up the development of appropriate responses from the public and government. In addition, he established the nonprofit organization 3ilmi 3ilmak, whose goal is to increase scientific literacy in Lebanon's refugee and at-risk groups.

Sidy Ndao

Sidy created the first thermal computer, which uses heat instead of electricity, to do calculations. It will be used even at the most severe temperatures, allowing for new frontiers to be discovered in space and beneath the surface of the planet. He also created the Dakar American University of Science & Technology in Senegal and runs an organization called SenEcole, which is dedicated to advancing STEM education across Africa and is best known for hosting the Pan-African Robotics Competition.

Ding Ai

Unpredictable and fatal, cardiovascular illnesses cause 31% of all fatalities worldwide. Ding Ai is investigating the factors that contribute to the onset of atherosclerosis, a heart disease characterized by the accumulation of plaque within the arteries.