What do film directors, health care innovators, startup founders, game designers and even a race car driver have in common? The awards span 20 categories of 30 honorees each across the arts, technology and social impact full list here. To make one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, candidates must evaluated by Forbes staff and a panel of independent, expert judges on a variety of factors, including but not limited to funding, revenue, social impact, scale, inventiveness and potential β along with being 29 or younger as of December 31, read the full methodology.
Peruse the list of rising UC stars and their already impressive achievements below descriptions lightly edited from Forbes. When Matan Grinberg was a Ph. A little over a week later, Grinberg dropped out of school to develop Factory, a platform to automate software engineering that uses AI to automate tasks like testing, refactoring, migrations, code review, documentation and debugging. A first-generation descendant of Chinese immigrants, she has been published in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone.
UC Berkeley Class of grad Clare Kim serves as a director with BC Partners Credit, investing in various industries including health care, technology and business services. Aggarwal also co-founded Blockchain at UC Berkeley, a leading university blockchain group, and helped launch one of the first blockchain courses, still taught today. UC San Diego alum Mohammad Alkhadra founded Lithios, a startup developing disruptive technology for low-cost lithium extraction.
The metal mining industry, reliant on energy-intensive refining processes, accounts for up to 7 percent of global GHG emissions and 44 percent of U. UC Berkeley chemical engineering Ph. UC Berkeley alum Jessica Jung is the lead producer at Niantic Games, where she leads product development, game monetization and partnership initiatives for the company's original franchise, "Peridot," an AR-first mobile game with over 1 million plays, shipping over updates with new game content.
As a partner manager at Twitch, UCLA grad Lily Lewis oversees over of the platform's top creators, working to ensure streamers like Ironmouse, a Puerto Rican streamer with an immunodeficiency, have equal opportunities.
