Researchers in electrical engineering, semiconductors, communications, and signal processing

Nobukazu Teranishi

Nobukazu Teranishi (寺西信一) is a Japanese engineer who invented the pinned photodiode at NEC in 1980, used in almost all image sensors, earning the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize.

Noel C. Giebink

Noel C. Giebink, known as Chris Giebink, is an American electrical engineer who works on photovoltaics and organic optoelectronics; since 2023 he has been a professor at the University of Michigan.

Oleg Losev

Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (1903–1942) was a self-taught Russian radio engineer who made the first detailed study of electroluminescence in crystal diodes and invented the crystadyne amplifier.

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (1887–1959) was an American telecommunications engineer who joined Bell System research in 1914 and served as president of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1940 to 1950.

Ongun Alsaç is a power systems engineer known as co-creator of the fast decoupled load flow and security-constrained optimal power flow, methods used commercially by electricity system operators worldwide.

Osama Nayfeh

Osama M. Nayfeh, also published as Sam Nayfeh, is an American electrical engineer and Senior Engineer/Scientist at NIWC Pacific in San Diego, who received a 2014 PECASE award.

Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.

Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard, Jr. (1916–2004) was an American radio physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for over-the-horizon radar, meteor-burst communication, and ionospheric sounding.

Otto H. Schade

Otto H. Schade (1903–1981) was a German-born American television engineer and imaging scientist who spent his career at RCA, known for developing the modulation transfer function concept.

Panganamala Ramana Kumar

Panganamala Ramana Kumar is a control and communication-networks engineer, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, whose scheduling policy has run an IBM wafer fab since 2005.

Paolo Addesso

Paolo Addesso is an Italian electronic engineer and associate professor at the University of Salerno who works in statistical signal processing, with applications to remote sensing and gravitational-wave detection.

Paul Daniel Dapkus

Paul Daniel Dapkus is an American electrical engineer and USC professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for making MOCVD the dominant process for laser diodes and LEDs.

Paul E. Gray

Paul E. Gray (1932–2017) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, serving as its fourteenth president from 1980 to 1990 and later chairing the MIT Corporation.

Paul H. Siegel

Paul H. Siegel, born 1953, is an American information theorist and Distinguished Professor at UCSD, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for coding techniques for digital recording.

Paul Heremans

Paul Heremans (Paul L. Heremans) is an electrical engineer who became corporate chief technology officer at imec in Leuven in 2025 and is a full professor at KU Leuven.

Paul M. Anderson

Paul M. Anderson (1926–2011) was an American electrical engineer, a professor at Iowa State University, and author of standard textbooks on power system analysis and stability.

Paul Penfield Jr.

Paul Penfield Jr. (1933–2021) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who led the EECS department from 1989 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Paul R. Gray

Paul R. Gray is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for analog integrated circuit design and the standard textbook with Robert G. Meyer.

Peder Oluf Pedersen

Peder Oluf Pedersen (1874–1941) was a Danish engineer and physicist who co-developed the Poulsen arc radio transmitter and the telegraphone magnetic recorder with Valdemar Poulsen.

Peide D. Ye

Peide D. Ye is an electrical engineer and professor at Purdue University known for research on 2D channel materials like phosphorene, negative-capacitance transistors, and oxide electronics.

Per K. Enge

Per K. Enge (Per Kristian Enge, 1953–2018) was a Norwegian-born electrical engineer and Stanford professor who directed the Stanford GPS Lab and led the design of WAAS and maritime DGPS.

Per V. Bruel

Per V. Bruel, also known as Per Vilhelm Brüel, was a Danish acoustics engineer who co-founded the instrumentation company Brüel & Kjær in 1942 with Viggo Kjær.

Per Vilhelm Brüel

Per Vilhelm Brüel (1915–2015) was a Danish acoustics engineer who co-founded the instrumentation company Brüel & Kjær in 1942 and made sound and vibration measurement routine in industry.

Peter Carl Goldmark

Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977) was a Hungarian-born American engineer who led CBS Laboratories, invented the 33⅓ rpm LP record introduced in 1948, and developed the first commercial color-television system.

Peter Cooper Hewitt

Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921) was an American electrical engineer and grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper who invented the first commercially successful mercury-vapor lamp and the mercury-arc rectifier.

Peter J. Pupalaikis

Peter J. Pupalaikis is an American electrical engineer known for digital signal processing in high-bandwidth real-time oscilloscopes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Peter J. Winzer

Peter J. Winzer is an optical communications researcher elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for work on fiber capacity limits, coherent detection, and constellation shaping.

Peter N. Belhumeur

Peter N. Belhumeur is an American computer vision scientist, professor of computer science at Columbia University, known for face recognition research and the Leafsnap plant-identification app.

Peter Stoica

Peter Stoica, also known as Petre Stoica, is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Systems Modeling at Uppsala University, known for system identification, spectral analysis, and array processing.

Peter Swerling

Peter Swerling (1929–2000) was an American mathematician and radar theoretician whose statistical models of fluctuating radar targets, the Swerling Cases I–IV, remain standard tools in radar system design.