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Four alumni named to Forbes '30 Under 30'

Shiv Gaglani, A.B. ’10 (engineering sciences - biomedical sciences and engineering), Douglas Schadewald, A.B. ’11 (applied mathematics), Erik Schluntz, A.B. ’15, S.M. ’16 (engineering sciences – electrical and computer engineering), and You Zhou, Ph.D. ’15 (applied physics), have been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30.” The annual list, drawn from more than 4,000 nominations, honors 600 impressive young innovators in 20 different industries.

Gaglani is cofounder of Osmosis, a company that produces animated health and medical education videos for the general public, and offers a training platform for medical, dental, and nursing students.

Schadewald, equity index volatility trader at Barclays, runs the firm’s S&P 500 and VIX derivatives portfolio, which is one of the largest option books on Wall Street.

Schluntz is cofounder and CTO of Cobalt Robotics, a company that provides self-driving security robots that use machine learning to flag anomalies like open doors, suspicious items, and unusual sounds.

Zhou (pictured above), currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, developed the synaptic transistor, which mimics animal synapses at the hardware level to build computers that have a similar structure to brains.

Read more in Forbes.

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