MIT Jameel Clinic AI faculty lead Regina Barzilay named in Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list
BOSTON, June 9, 2026 – Regina Barzilay, AI faculty lead at the MIT Jameel Clinic, has been named to The Boston Globe’s fifth annual Tech Power Players 50 list of the most influential, accomplished, and interesting people influencing the technology and business industries in New England.
Barzilay is a recipient of various awards including the 2017 MacArthur fellowship “Genius Grant”, an ACL fellowship, and an AAAI fellowship. In 2020, she was awarded the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. More recently, she has been recognized on the 2025 TIME100 AI List and awarded with the IEEE Frances E. Allen Medal for her development of innovative machine learning algorithms that have significantly advanced human language technology and transformed medical diagnostics and drug discovery, such as Mirai, Sybil, and the Boltz model series.
The 2026 Tech Power Players 50 list features leaders from higher ed, health care, energy and climate-tech, cybersecurity, and AI. This year’s honorees reflect a dynamic range of leaders driving meaningful progress across organizations of all sizes, from legacy institutions and established companies to emerging startups.
Candidates for this year’s list were selected by the Globe’s newsroom, with much deliberation among the business and technology team, led by Gregory T. Huang, the Globe’s business editor. The team sought out and selected candidates who have demonstrated significant effect on the region’s tech sector and are driving real change and growth across the industry.
“After years of covering Boston’s business and tech landscape, I haven’t seen this level of energy and momentum in a long time,” said Huang. “The buzz right now is unmistakable, and it made this year’s list especially compelling. The people we’ve recognized are leading at a moment that feels significant.”
Explore the full list of Tech Power Players at globe.com/tech50 and in a commemorative print issue of Globe Magazine available on June 14.
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About MIT Jameel Clinic
Established in 2018 by MIT and Community Jameel, the MIT Jameel Clinic is a research center pioneering translational research in clinical AI and AI-driven drug discovery that can be applied across a broad spectrum of real-world scenarios in health, regardless of geography, socioeconomic status, and access to care. The Clinic’s efforts are singularly devoted to addressing the unmet needs of patients with urgency, precision, and transparency. Through the rigorous development, validation, and deployment of safe AI models, in hospitals and therapeutics research, the Clinic’s goal is to build AI-enabled tools that can detect disease earlier, optimize treatment selection, accelerate drug discovery, and improve patient care.
