The MIT Technology Review, a Massachusetts-based technology publication has come out with its annual list of 35 innovators aged under 35. This year it features two men of south Asian origin.

Balaji Srinivasan and Vijay Balasubramaniyan, both 33, made it to the coveted list, which celebrates young entrepreneurs and inventors, who have done exceptional work in the field of technology globally.

People of south Asian origin and Indian-Americans have regularly featured on MIT's innovators list. This year, however their number has gone down. In 2012, five innovators on the list were of south Asian origin.

The winners are selected by a panel of judges evaluate the candidates based on current trends in technology and the diversity of innovation.

The list is divided into five sections: inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, humanitarians and pioneers.

MIT selected Mr. Srinivasan as one of the top entrepreneurs.

He is the founder of Counsyl Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that conducts low-cost, genetic tests on prospective parents that can identify if they are carrying genes capable of causing hereditary diseases in their children.

Counsyl also won bronze in the The Wall Street Journal's Innovation Awards in 2010.

Mr. Srinivasan founded Counsyl in 2007 with his brother Ramji Srinivasan. Before that, he taught data mining, statistics, and computational biology in the department of statistics at Stanford University in California.

The Srinivasan brothers' father, however, didn't want them to get into medicine and was keen for them to study computer science instead, notes the MIT Technology review.

A Stanford alum, Mr. Srinivasan holds graduate, post-graduate and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering. He also holds a Master's degree in chemicalengineering from Stanford.

The other south Asian on the list, Vijay Balasubramaniyan is the co-founder of Pindrop Security Inc. an Atlanta based company that tracks fraudulent phone calls.

The list recognizes him as one of the top inventors.

Mr. Balasubramaniyan completed his undergraduate studies in engineering from R. V. College of Engineering in the southern Indian city of Bangalore and doctoral studies from Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. Prior to Pindrop, he worked at some of the top technology firms such as Google Inc., Intel Corp. and IBM Research.

He is also a regular speaker at technology conferences on the subject of phone fraud.

In the past the MIT list has included Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc., Spotify's founder Daniel Ek and Apple Inc's Jonathan Ive.