Key Points:

• MIT Technology Review selects one individual whose work we admire to recognize as Innovator of the Year .
• For 2025, we chose Sneha Goenka, who designed the computations behind the world’s fastest whole-genome sequencing method .
• The two people shaping the future of OpenAI's research are Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, the twin heads of research .
• Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year