March 4, 2013

UW Today Article features “Five with UW links named to Forbes 30 under 30”

Forbes releasted it’s 30 under 30 honor in December of 2012.  Five of those listed for this prestigious international honor had ties to the UW.

The article in UW Today provided the list of spectacular young adults:

Named were:

Daniela Witten, 27, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the UW School of Public Health who joined the UW faculty at 26. She develops artificial intelligence programs to crunch genomic data to try to decipher how genes lead to diseases like cancer  (See her video: http://video.forbes.com/fvn/30-under-30/30-under-30-daniela-witten)

Sarah Ng, 27, a UW graduate student training in genome sciences with Jay Shendure and other  renowned scientists at the UWs Northwest Genomic Sequencing Center and the new Mendelian Genomics Center.  She is using advanced sequencing methods to identify the genes that cause rare diseases.

Jacob Applebaum, 28, is a staff research scientist in the UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering.  His work is on computer security and privacy, with an emphasis on anonymity, censorship resistance and network filtering. He is noted for uncovering security flaws in software.

Sidhant Gupta, 27, is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering under the mentorship of Shwetak N. Patel. He is developing low-cost, easy-to-deploy sensors for conserving energy in the home.

Jeffrey Kidd, 28, a recent UW genome sciences graduate student who trained with Evan Eichler and other notable UW researchers. Kidd is noted for using DNA sequencing to understand the forces that shape the evolution of primates, including apes and humans. He has now been appointed  assistant professor at the University of Michigan.