6. Farkad Adnan
Age: 28
Occupation: University Professor & CEO of the Arduino International Innovation Foundation
Nationality: Iraqi
Residence: Iraq
Category: Social Impact
Adnan invented an electronic device for blind people with special needs to help them interact with their surrounding environment. He also invented a scientific research project for foldable chips that are implanted in the human body to predict cancer early, along with a brain-computer interface system (BCI) technology to decode the brain's neural signals that represent writing letters on the computer for people with special needs. Adnan has been granted two patents, one from Iraq and the second from China and he is in the process of issuing a third one in Iraq with a patent application for the BCI under review by the World Intellectual Property Organization.