Sports:

11. Muthu Alagappan, 23, Consultant, Ayasdi; Developed a set of advanced statistical basketball metrics; he groups players by statistical strengths to surmise that a team effectively breaks down to thirteen positions rather than five.

12. Megha Parekh, 28, Vice president, Jacksonville Jaguars; Harvard Law School graduate and former Proskauer associate.

Games:

13. Amir Rao, 29, Studio director, Supergiant Games; Co-founder of Supergiant Games and co-creator of the action role-playing video game Bastion.

Science & Healthcare:

14. Divya Nag, 22, Cofounder, Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med; Divya Nag is attacking one of medicine's biggest problems: the fact that most types of human cells-like those in the heart or liver-die when you keep them in a petri dish.

15. Raghu Chivukula, 29, Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; A microRNA he characterized shows early promise as a liver cancer drug.

16. Surbhi Sarna, 28, Founder, nVision Medical; Company envisions to create a technology to detect ovarian cancer quickly and early.

17. Sam Chaudhary, 27 and Liam Don, 27, Cofounders, ClassDojo; A software company that helps teachers track classroom behaviour.

18. Sayamindu Dasgupta, 29, PhD student, MIT Media Lab; Dasgupta is vital to the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group's Scratch project, which enables kids to programme their own games, animated stories, and art and share them with millions of other children around the world.

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Source: IANS