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

Philip Feng

Philip X.-L. Feng is an electrical engineer known for nanoelectromechanical systems built from atomically thin 2D materials such as molybdenum disulfide, and a 2016 PECASE recipient.

Philip T. Krein

Philip T. Krein is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Ping King Tien

Ping King Tien (田炳耕), known as P. K. Tien, was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, a central figure in integrated optics and inventor of the prism-film coupler.

Piya Pal

Piya Pal is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, known for sparse array geometries and winning the 2019 PECASE award.

Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel is a British professor of optical communications and networks at University College London who founded the Optical Networks Group in 1994 and set multiple fiber-capacity records.

Prabha S. Kundur

Prabha Shankar Kundur (1939–2018) was a Canadian electrical engineer known for work on power system stability, author of the standard textbook Power System Stability and Control.

Qiangfei Xia is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for memristor research, neuromorphic computing, and co-founding the AI accelerator startup TetraMem.

Qing-Huo Liu

Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.

R. Noel Longuemare

R. Noel Longuemare is an American electrical engineer who spent 41 years developing radar and avionics systems at Westinghouse, then served in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton.

Rajiv Laroia

Rajiv Laroia is a wireless communications engineer who founded Flarion Technologies, whose OFDMA-based all-IP mobile broadband system became a foundation for 4G LTE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Ralph Bown

Ralph Bown (1891–1971) was an American electrical engineer who led AT&T's transatlantic radio telephone research, became research director at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and won the IRE Medal of Honor in 1949.

Ralph Hartley

Ralph Hartley (Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley) was an American electronics researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories who invented the Hartley oscillator and, in 1928, an early measure of information.

Ralph S. Gens

Ralph S. Gens was an American electric power transmission engineer who led Bonneville Power Administration's 500 kV grid and HVDC introduction, elected to the NAE in 1983.

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Ranjan Singh

Ranjan Singh is a terahertz photonics researcher and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, known for on-chip topological beamforming for 6G wireless.

Rao R. Tummala

Rao R. Tummala is an electrical and materials engineer who spent 25 years at IBM developing multichip packaging, then founded Georgia Tech's Packaging Research Center in 1993.

Raymond D. Kell

Raymond D. Kell (Ray D. Kell) directed television camera research at RCA from 1930, helped create the American 525-line TV standard, and gave his name to the Kell factor.

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Raymond W. Ketchledge (1919–1987) was an American electronics engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who led development of the first electronic telephone switching systems placed in public service in the United States.

Reginald Cooper

Reginald Cooper is an American electronics engineer in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, a 2017 PECASE recipient known for radio-frequency electronic warfare research and mentoring.

Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela

Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela is a Chilean-born wireless researcher who directs Wireless Communications Research at Nokia Bell Labs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Reinhold Rudenberg

Reinhold Rudenberg was a German-born electrical engineer who headed the scientific department at Siemens, filed the first electron microscope patents in 1931, and became a Harvard professor.

Richard D. Tabors

Richard D. Tabors is an American energy-systems economist whose theory of spot pricing of electricity became the basis for locational marginal pricing and financial transmission rights.

Richard H. Frenkiel

Richard H. Frenkiel, born in 1943, is an American engineer who helped design the first US cellular telephone system at Bell Labs and later taught at Rutgers.

Richard M. White

Richard M. White (1930–2020) was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering work on ultrasonics and surface acoustic waves.

Richard R. Hough

Richard R. Hough (1917–1992) was an American electrical engineer and telecommunications executive who led the introduction of electronic telephone switching into the Bell System, winning the 1980 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Richard Sandstrom

Richard Sandstrom is an American engineer who co-founded Cymer in San Diego in 1986, holding 155 patents in excimer laser and EUV light-source design for nanoscale chip manufacturing.

Rik W. De Doncker

Rik W. De Doncker is a Belgian electrical engineer and professor at RWTH Aachen University, best known for inventing the dual-active-bridge DC-DC converter in 1988.

Robert A. Henle

Robert A. Henle was an American electrical engineer at IBM who led IBM's entry into semiconductor main memory and received the 1987 IEEE Edison Medal.

Robert A. Pucel

Robert A. Pucel is an American microwave engineer who spent 38 years at Raytheon developing gallium arsenide MMIC technology and shared the 2005 IEEE Microwave Pioneer Award.

Robert A. Scholtz

Robert A. Scholtz is an American electrical engineer and Fred H. Cole Professor at the University of Southern California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to spread-spectrum and ultra-wideband communication.