NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TED, the
nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, today announces the
newest class of 21 new TED Fellows and 12 TED Senior Fellows. This
diverse group of innovators, representing 18 countries and multiple
disciplines, will join the global TED community at TED2013 in
Long Beach, CA, to catapult their
work to the international stage.
The TED2013 Fellows and Senior Fellows include an electrical
engineer who created a macroscopic invisibility cloak for visible
light; a sound artist and composer who strives to reclaim ownership
of sound; and a medical device innovator whose company tests for
anemia in pregnant women using light, without drawing blood. Please
see below for the full list of TED2013 Fellows and Senior
Fellows.
Now in its fourth year, the TED Fellows program hand-picks
courageous, accomplished young innovators from around the world to
raise international awareness of their work, which ranges widely
from open science to new media art to social entrepreneurship. By
bringing Fellows to the TED stage -- both literally and
figuratively -- the program helps amplify the impact of their
initiatives and supports their quest to affect the world in the
most positive way. To date, the program has honored more than 300
Fellows from more than 75 countries from thousands of applications
around the world.
"The TED Fellows program has given an international stage to
people and to stories we might never have otherwise heard," said
Tom Rielly, director of the program.
"For example, Max Little created
technology that detects Parkinson's disease through audio tests on
ordinary phone calls. He used the platform offered by TEDGlobal to
grow his sample database against which he compares voice samples
from zero to 17,000 in half the time expected. Whether it is a
medical device innovator, a data visualization scientist redefining
their field or an astrobiologist studying exoplanets, being part of
TED offers Fellows a groundswell of support for their
world-changing work."
TED will begin accepting submissions for the next class of TED
Fellows on May 28, 2013. The program
seeks individuals aged 21 to 45 (though anyone over 18 is eligible)
who show remarkable achievement in their fields of endeavor. It
targets applicants from Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin
America, Eastern Europe and
the Middle East, but welcomes
candidates from anywhere. Please visit
http://www.ted.com/pages/fellows-applying to learn more about the
application process.
TED2013 Fellows
Alicia Eggert
(USA) - Interdisciplinary
artist
American interdisciplinary artist whose work primarily takes the
form of kinetic, electronic and interactive sculpture.
Antonio Torres
(Mexico) - Architect +
naturalist
Mexican artist, architect and co-founder of The Bittertang Farm, a
small design farm that/which explores expressions and sensations
through media and architecture.
Baile Zhang (China | Singapore) - Electrical
engineer
Chinese electrical engineer and physicist who has created the first
macroscopic invisibility cloak.
Ben Burke (USA) - Writer, performer + designer
American interdisciplinary artist, puppeteer, junkyard tinkerer and
co-founder of Apocalypse Puppet Theater and the Stars & Garters
Theater Company.
Christine Sun Kim
(USA) - Sound artist +
composer
Korean-American artist and educator who uses the medium of sound
through technology to investigate and rationalize her relationship
with sound and spoken languages.
Cyrus Kabiru (Kenya) - Found object artist
Kenyan self-taught painter and sculptor who primarily uses junk
materials to make his works, including striking eyewear.
David Lang (USA) - Maker + writer
American co-founder of OpenROV, a community of DIY ocean explorers
and developers of low-cost, open-source underwater robots.
Edwyn "Eddie" Huang (USA
| Taiwan) - Writer, host +
chef
Taiwanese-American owner and head chef of Baohaus in NYC, a
Taiwanese street-food restaurant inspired by youth culture and hip
hop.
Jinha Lee (South Korea) - Inventor + interaction
researcher
South Korean inventor and interaction researcher who explores new
ways to leverage physical space and objects to interface with the
digital world.
Kibwe Tavares (UK) -
Filmmaker +
architect
British filmmaker and co-founder of Factory Fifteen, a film and
animation studio exploring new methods of visual storytelling.
Kitra Cahana (Canada) -
Photographer
Canadian photographer who has spent the past three years
researching and documenting nomadic youth identities in
the United States.
Louisa Preston (UK) -
Astrobiologist
British astrobiologist and planetary geologist studying life in
Earth's most extreme environments, hoping to someday find life on
Mars.
Miriah Meyer (USA) - Science visualization
designer
American designer who creates interactive visualization systems
that help scientists make sense of complex data.
Mohammad Herzallah
(Palestine) - Neuroscientist
Founder of the Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative, working to
create an infrastructure for neuroscience research and to train the
next generation of neuroscientists in Palestine.
Negin Farsad (USA | Iran) -
Comedian + filmmaker
Iranian-American stand-up comedian and filmmaker currently working
on "The Muslims are Coming!", a film that follows Muslim-American
comedians on the road as they perform, meet locals and counter
Islamophobia.
Paul Wicks (UK) - Medical
architect
British medical entrepreneur and lead scientist for PatientsLikeMe,
an online community allowing people living with medical conditions
to track their illnesses, share their experiences and contribute to
research.
Renee Hlozek (South Africa | USA) - Cosmologist
South African cosmologist working to better understand the initial
conditions of the universe – the tiny fluctuations that grew to be
the large structures we see today, such as galaxies.
Ryan Holladay
(USA) - Musical artist
American artist and co-founder of BLUEBRAIN, a music and technology
duo creating site-specific sound experiments, interactive concerts
and film scoring.
Safwat Saleem
(Pakistan | USA) - Graphic designer +
satirist
Pakistani graphic designer, filmmaker and artist who uses humor to
tell stories of people (and creatures) who have the odds stacked
against them.
Shivani Siroya
(USA | India) - Mobile finance entrepreneur
Indian-American founder and CEO of InVenture, a mobile technology
company creating a text-messaging platform that provides credit
scores and accounting tools to anyone with a mobile phone.
Tunde Jegede (Nigeria | UK) - Composer
UK-based composer, producer, cellist and kora (African harp) player
who fuses Western classical music with African traditions.
2013 TED Senior Fellows
Julie Freeman (UK) -
Artist
UK based artist combining science, technology, and natural systems,
in order to create work that questions how we translate nature.
Ayah Bdeir (Lebanon |
US) - Engineer +
artist
Lebanese artist, inventor and founder of littleBits, an open-source
system of pre-assembled circuits that snap together with magnets –
making learning about electronics fun, easy and creative.
Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka) - Blue whale
scientist
Sri Lankan cetologist, oceanographer, and PhD candidate studying
the unique and unusual population of non-migrating blue whales
found only in the Northern Indian Ocean
Camille Seaman (US) -
Polar photographer
Native American photographer whose work captures the harsh beauty
of remote Arctic landscapes.
Genevieve von Petzinger
(Canada) - Cave art
researcher
Canadian doctoral candidate studying ancient geometric signs from
the Ice Age.
Lucianne Walkowicz (US) -
Stellar astronomer
Postdoctoral fellow studying the effects of stellar activity on
exoplanets with the Kepler Mission.
Greg Gage (US) - DIY
neuroscientist
DIY neuroscientist and co-founder of Backyard Brains, an
organization teaching kids neuroscience through experiments with
robotic control of ordinary cockroaches.
Kaustuv de Biswas
(India | US) - Digital community
builder
Indian design entrepreneur and creator of Sunglass, a cloud-based
3D platform that enables artists and engineers to build things
together, regardless of location or device.
Boniface Mwangi (Kenya)
- Photo activist
Kenyan photojournalist and founder of Picha Mtaani, a youth-led
national reconciliation initiative in Kenya, and Pawa254, a collaborative space for
creatives in Nairobi.
Myshkin Ingawale (India)
- Medical device
innovator
Founder of Biosense Technologies, an Indian medical device company
that has created a low-cost instrument that tests for anemia using
light, without the need to draw blood.
Angelo Vermeulen
(Belgium) - Artist +
scientist
Visual artist, biologist, space researcher and community organiser
who creates large-scale collaborative art installations. Currently
crew commander of the NASA-funded HI-SEAS Mars simulation in
Hawaii.
Lars Jan (US) - Director +
media artist
Founder of Early Morning Opera, a genre-bending art lab creating
works that chart constellations of ideas using technically
innovative live performance, as well as through traditional and
emerging media.
About the TED Fellows program
The TED Fellows program hand-picks courageous, accomplished young
innovators from around the world to raise international awareness
of their work. Among many diverse accomplishments, TED Fellows have
developed a technology to
detect Parkinson's disease through phone calls,
used bacteria to "grow" their own clothing and launched
an app that helps people around the world
crowdsource crisis information.
Founded in 2009, the TED Fellows program offers full
participation in the TED2013 conference, a three-day pre-conference
of workshops and activities, ongoing professional coaching and
mentoring through the SupporTED program and active participation in
the TED community through the Fellows network (fellows.ted.com),
TED Fellows blog and TEDx events. The program is made possible by
the visionary support of the Bezos family, the Harnisch Foundation,
the Dhanam Foundation, the Arcus Foundation and numerous private
donors.
Learn more about the TED Fellows:
Website: http://www.ted.com/fellows
Email: fellows@ted.com
Twitter: @tedfellow
Facebook: facebook.com/TEDFellow
YouTube: youtube.com/tedfellowstalks
About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to
support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The
annual TED conference invites the world's leading thinkers and
doers to speak for 18 minutes, and their talks are then made
available for free at TED.com. TED speakers have included
Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane
Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert,
Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
Isabel Allende and former UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown. The annual
TED conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the
TEDActive simulcast in Palm
Springs; the annual TEDGlobal is held each summer in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are
posted daily, the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students
and educators, the Open Translation Project, which provides
subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for
any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide, and TEDBooks,
short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea
originally presented on TED's stage. TED has established the annual
TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the
world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action;
TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local,
self-organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows
program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to
become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the
impact of their remarkable projects and activities. Follow TED on
Twitter at @TEDNews, or on Facebook at facebook.com/TED.
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