International business publication Forbes has featured several Pittsburgh-based young professionals to be named among its 30 Under 30 series of annual lists, which span art, education, finance, technology and other industry sectors.
The publication announced the honorees for its 13th annual iteration of the lists on Tuesday.
In the health care list category, Forbes included Adam Butchy, Utkars Jain and Michael Leasure, all of whom are engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh and co-founders of HEARTio, a startup that's developing an algorithm for electrocardiogram readings that could lead to the identification and subsequent prevention or treatment of severe heart problems. In March 2022, the Pittsburgh Business Times named Butchy and Jain among that year's class of 30 Under 30 honorees due in part to their efforts at HEARTio, which closed on a $1 million funding round in Q4 2022.
And in the science list category, Forbes named Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor Aditi Raghunathan among its other honorees in this group. The publication praised Raghunathan's efforts in researching the reliability of safety mechanisms for artificial intelligence systems that are deployed in health care settings and in self-driving vehicles.
Last year, Forbes named Zaria Parvez, the global social media manager of Pittsburgh-based edtech company Duolingo Inc., to its list for her leadership efforts that made the company's account on TikTok go viral time and time again.
