School of Computer Science alumnus Ishan Misra was named to MIT Technology Review's list of 35 Innovators Under 35 for his work in artificial intelligence. The annual list released each summer recognizes emerging industry leaders who are developing new technologies or using existing ones creatively to solve problems with a global impact.

Misra, a research scientist at Meta AI Research, works on computer vision and machine learning with an interest in reducing the need for supervision in visual learning. An AI model needs large amounts of human-labeled data in order to be accurate, but Misra's research shows that it's possible to train these models on visual data alone, skipping the human component. He believes that such self-supervised models will greatly expand the types of problems AI can solve.

Misra earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from the International Institute of Information Technology in 2012. He received both his master's degree and Ph.D. in robotics from SCS in 2014 and 2018, respectively.

MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 list, which started in 1999 as the TR100, recognizes individuals whose work in tech will help shape future decades. Each year, MIT Review editors screen the nominations and send a list of semifinalists to a panel of judges with expertise in all areas of technology. They select the 35 finalists, whose innovations are grouped into five categories: AI and robots, biotech, climate change, computing and materials science.

Two associate professors from CMU's College of Engineering, Gauri Joshi and Xu Zhang, were also named to this year's list.