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James L. Kirtley Jr.
James L. Kirtley Jr. is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor specializing in electric machinery and power systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
James R. Biard
James R. Biard, known as Bob Biard, was an American electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who invented the first GaAs infrared LED, the optical isolator, and the MOS read-only memory.
James R. Wait
James R. Wait (1924–1998) was a Canadian electrical engineer whose waveguide theory of very-low-frequency radio propagation between the earth and the ionosphere framed long-distance VLF and ELF communication.
James Rufus McDonald
James Rufus McDonald, known as Jim McDonald, is a Scottish electrical power engineer who has served as Principal of the University of Strathclyde since 2009.
James Shelby Thorp
James Shelby Thorp (1937–2018) was an American electrical engineer and a principal contributor to the phasor measurement unit, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
James U Lemke
James U Lemke was an American engineer and physicist in magnetic recording, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, who later founded Achates Power.
James West (acoustician)
James West is an American acoustics scientist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler at Bell Labs in 1962, the basis of most microphones today.
Javier Garcia-Frias
Javier Garcia-Frias is an information theorist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, a 2001 NSF CAREER and PECASE award recipient.
Jay Giri
Jay Giri is an American power-systems engineer who co-founded the control-center software company ESCA in 1978 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Jean H. Felker
Jean H. Felker (1919–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who led development of TRADIC, the first fully transistorized computer in the United States.
Jerome J. Tiemann
Jerome J. Tiemann was an American physicist at General Electric who co-invented the surface-charge transistor, independently invented as the CCD, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
Jerome Wiesner
Jerome Wiesner was an American electrical engineer, science advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and the thirteenth president of MIT, serving from 1971 to 1980.
Jesse Russell
Jesse Eugene Russell is an American electrical engineer who led the Bell Labs team that introduced digital cellular technology in the United States in 1988, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Jim K. Omura
Jim K. Omura, born Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura, was an American information theorist who taught at UCLA, co-founded encryption maker Cylink, and won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2005.
Jin‐Hong Park
Jin-Hong Park is a South Korean electrical engineer and professor of semiconductor devices at Sungkyunkwan University, working on 2D materials, multi-valued logic, and neuromorphic hardware.
Joe Hong Chow
Joe Hong Chow is an electric power engineer and Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for widely used methods for modeling, analysis, and control of large-scale power grids.
Joel L. Dawson
Joel L. Dawson is an electrical engineer who works on radio-frequency integrated circuits for wireless and implanted medical devices, and an MIT associate professor who received a PECASE award.
Joel S. Engel
Joel S. Engel (born 1936) is an American electrical engineer who led the Bell Laboratories team that designed AMPS, the first cellular telephone system in the United States.
Joel Spira
Joel Spira (1927–2015) was an American physicist who invented the first solid-state electronic light dimmer and founded Lutron Electronics in 1961, holding more than 300 US patents.
Joerg Appenzeller
Joerg Appenzeller is a nanoelectronics researcher who holds the Epstein Professorship at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, known for establishing how carbon nanotube transistors conduct current.
Johann W. Kolar
Johann W. Kolar is an Austrian-Swiss electrical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus, best known for heading the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory and inventing the Vienna Rectifier.
John B. MacChesney
John B. MacChesney (1929–2021) was an American materials scientist at Bell Laboratories who invented the MCVD process for manufacturing optical fibers, and won the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
John B. Whitehead
John B. Whitehead (1872–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for research on electrical insulation and for building its engineering school as first dean.
John Brooks Slaughter
John Brooks Slaughter (1934–2023) was an American electrical engineer who became the first African American director of the National Science Foundation, serving from 1980 to 1982.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, known as "the father of DSL" for the discrete multitone research that became the 1993 US standard.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John David Rhodes
John David Rhodes, born in 1943, is a British microwave engineer, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, and founder of Filtronic plc, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers is an electrical engineer who spent 38 years at UC Santa Barbara pioneering silicon photonics, cofounding six companies, and winning the 2024 IEEE Nishizawa Prize.
John G. Linvill
John G. Linvill (1919–2011) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University known for transistor circuit theory and for inventing the Optacon, an electronic reading device for blind readers.