Lebanese nationals Fadel Adib and Aya Bdeir have been featured on MIT’s (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) list of 35 Inventors under 35.

Adib, born in Tripoli, invented at the young age of 25 a new technology that allows its user to detect the movements of people from a different room using WIFI signals.

Adib’s received accolades for potentially changing the technological perspectives in his field.

He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 2011 where he received a degree in computer engineering with a minor in mathematics.

 He was later admitted in MIT for a Masters degree in computer science. Adib, currently in his third year at the institute, is working on improving wireless technologies.

American scientists and universities expressed interest in Adib’s work.

Ranking first during all his semesters at AUB, Adib has the highest cumulative GPA in the digitally-recorded history of Lebanon’s leading university.

The list also included a second Lebanese national. Aya Bdeir, a 31 year-old former AUB student, founded her company “LittleBits” several years ago and it has already been named by CNN as one of the ten most promising young firms in New York.

LittleBits sells a kit of different electronic pieces that the user can sort into different combinations to get different results. The wide range of possibilities provided by this simple learning tool allows people of all ages to feel involved, by creating robots and circuits as complicated as they want.