Six Chinese youths make MIT's innovators of the year list Updated: 2016-08-25 11:31 By Wu Yan(chinadaily.com.cn)

The official website of MIT Technology Review has published this year's list of 35 world innovators under the age of 35, the 16th of its kind, with six Chinese on the list.

The list aims to highlight young innovators who are poised to be the leaders of their own fields, whether they are entrepreneurs or academic researchers.

Under five categories of inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, humanitarians and pioneers, they are doing research and development or innovation in the fields of medical, energy, materials, IT and others.

The six Chinese on the list are:

Inventors:

Gao Wei, 31

Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley

The engineer has built sweatbands that monitor your health.