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Lei Wei
Lei Wei (魏磊) is a Singapore-based engineer, professor at Nanyang Technological University, who makes hair-thin semiconductor fibers and weaves them into fabrics that sense, compute, and display.
Leo Young (electrical engineer)
Leo Young (1926–2006) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who led microwave filter research at Stanford Research Institute, directed research at the Pentagon, and co-authored the 1964 filter handbook.
Léon Charles Thévenin
Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who published Thévenin's theorem in 1883, letting a linear circuit be replaced by a voltage source and resistance.
Leon K. Kirchmayer
Leon K. Kirchmayer (1924–1995) was an American electrical engineer at General Electric, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for power-system control and planning.
Leonard Cutler
Leonard Cutler (1928–2006) was an American physicist who cofounded HP Labs and led development of the HP 5060A and 5071A cesium atomic clocks, whose 5071A remains the largest contributor of cesium clocks to Coordinated Universal Time.
Leonard F. Fuller
Leonard F. Fuller (1890–1987) was an American electrical engineer who, as chief engineer of the Federal Telegraph Company, developed high-power Poulsen arc transmitters used by the United States Navy for long-distance radio telegraphy.
Lester F. Eastman
Lester F. Eastman (1928–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Cornell University who built the first US university research program on compound-semiconductor microwave devices such as gallium arsenide.
Lester M. Field
Lester M. Field was an American electrical engineer who created modern traveling-wave tube structures, taught at Stanford and Caltech, and directed microwave research at Hughes Research Laboratories.
Lin Cai
Lin Cai is a Canadian researcher in wireless communications and networking, President's Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria since 2005.
Linda P.B. Katehi
Linda P.B. Katehi, born in Greece in 1954, is an electrical engineer whose microwave antenna research led to her 2006 election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Lloyd Espenschied
Lloyd Espenschied (1889–1986) was an American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs who co-invented the coaxial cable, receiving the 1931 patent with Herman A. Affel.
Lloyd R. Welch
Lloyd R. Welch (1927–2023) was an American information theorist and electrical engineer who co-invented the Baum–Welch and Berlekamp–Welch algorithms and received the 2003 Shannon Award as a longtime USC professor.
LO, Yuen Tze
Yuen Tze Lo (罗远祉) was a Chinese-born electrical engineer at the University of Illinois known for antenna theory, the method of moments, and microstrip antenna design.
Longya Xu
Longya Xu is an electrical engineer in power electronics and electric machines who spent over 30 years at Ohio State before joining FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2023.
Ludwig F. Lischer
Ludwig F. Lischer was an American electric power engineer who spent his career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, rising to vice president in charge of system planning.
Lynn Conway
Lynn Ann Conway (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who, with Carver Mead, created the VLSI design methodology that transformed microchip design from the late 1970s.
M. George Craford
M. George Craford, born 1938, is an American electrical engineer who led development of the first yellow LED and high-brightness red, orange, and amber LEDs.
M. Robert Aaron
M. Robert Aaron was a Bell Labs engineer who applied computer-aided design to the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1, and shared the 1978 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Mac Van Valkenburg
Mac Van Valkenburg was an American electrical engineer and University of Illinois professor whose textbooks on circuit theory shaped how the subject was taught worldwide.
Makoto Kikuchi
Makoto Kikuchi (菊池誠), 1925 to 2012, was a Japanese semiconductor physicist who developed point-contact transistors at Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory and led Sony's silicon CCD development.
Man Mohan Sondhi
Man Mohan Sondhi, published as M. Mohan Sondhi, is a signal-processing researcher who spent 39 years at Bell Laboratories and developed the adaptive echo canceller for telephone networks.
Marc Baldo
Marc Baldo is an American electrical engineer at MIT known for phosphorescent OLEDs and singlet exciton fission solar cells, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Marcian Hoff
Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. is an American electrical engineer who, as Intel's twelfth employee, proposed the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, in 1969.
Marija D. Ilic
Marija D. Ilic is a power-systems engineer at MIT known for hierarchical control of electric grids and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Mario Caironi
Mario Caironi, born 1978 in Bergamo, is an Italian electrical engineer at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan working on printed and edible organic electronics.
Mark A. Reed
Mark A. Reed, also known as Mark Reed, was an American electrical engineer and Yale professor who coined "quantum dot" and made the first single-molecule conductance measurement.
Mark G. Adamiak
Mark G. Adamiak is an American electric power systems engineer in digital protective relaying, synchrophasor measurement, and substation automation, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Mark J. O'Malley
Mark J. O'Malley is an Irish power-systems engineer, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London, known for integrating wind energy into power grids.
Mark Kryder
Mark Kryder is an electrical engineer and CMU Professor recognized for his leading work on Perpendicular Recording in hard disk drives and for formulating Kryder's Law.
Mark R. Pinto
Mark R. Pinto is an American electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for co-developing the PISCES semiconductor simulator and serving as CTO of Applied Materials.