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Ronald W. Schafer
Ronald W. Schafer (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer known for foundational work in digital signal processing and for co-authoring the canonical DSP textbooks with Alan V. Oppenheim.
Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977) was an Austrian-born physicist and engineer who invented the traveling-wave tube and the backward-wave oscillator, and led early communication-satellite work at Bell Laboratories.
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang (Zhang Rui) is a Singapore-based wireless communications researcher and Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for wireless power transfer.
Russell D. Dupuis
Russell D. Dupuis (born 1947) is an American materials scientist and electrical engineer who developed MOCVD, the process that manufactures most of the world's LEDs and laser diodes.
Salvatore Campione
Salvatore Campione is an Italian-born electrical engineer and nanophotonics researcher at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, recipient of a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Samuel Silver
Samuel Silver (1915–1976) was an American electrical engineer and Berkeley professor known for microwave antenna theory and as first director of Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory.
Sanjoy K. Mitter
Sanjoy K. Mitter (1933–2023) was an Indian-born American control theorist, a professor at MIT from 1969 who led its Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and won the IEEE Control Systems Award.
Sarah Rajala
Sarah Rajala is an American electrical engineer known for image processing research and engineering education assessment, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (1864–1930) was a British electrical engineer who designed Deptford power station, the first in the world to supply electricity at 10,000 volts.
Seongil Im
Seongil Im (임성일) is a South Korean applied physicist and materials scientist, a professor at Yonsei University known for work on thin-film transistors and 2D semiconductor devices.
Sergio Verdú
Sergio Verdú is a Spanish-born information theorist, a native of Barcelona, who founded the field of multiuser detection and won the 2007 Shannon Award and the 2008 IEEE Hamming Medal.
Seunghyup Yoo
Seunghyup Yoo (유승협) is a South Korean electrical engineer and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for research on OLEDs, organic solar cells, and flexible displays.
Seymour B. Cohn
Seymour B. Cohn (1920–2015) was an American microwave engineer known for stripline theory and microwave filter design, who worked at Sperry and Stanford Research Institute and won the IEEE Lamme Medal.
Shawn Newsam
Shawn Newsam is an American computer scientist and founding faculty member at the University of California, Merced, working in image processing, computer vision, and geoinformatics.
Shlomo Shamai
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) is an Israeli information theorist, a Distinguished Professor at the Technion since 1986, known for work on the capacity of wireless channels.
Shun'ichi Iwasaki
Shun'ichi Iwasaki (岩崎俊一, born 1926 in Fukushima Prefecture) is a Japanese electrical engineer who invented perpendicular magnetic recording at Tohoku University in 1977, honored with the Japan Prize in 2010.
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武)
Shung-Wu Lee (李雄武) is a Taiwan-born electrical engineer at Illinois known for radar scattering and stealth technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington (1906–1997) was an American electrical engineer and circuit theorist at Bell Laboratories from 1929 to 1971, known for the Darlington transistor pair and insertion-loss filter synthesis.
Sidney Metzger
Sidney Metzger (1917–2011) was an American communications engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, who worked on secure wartime radio, early satellites, and INTELSAT at COMSAT.
Simon Middelhoek
Simon Middelhoek is a Dutch electrical engineer who studied thin magnetic films at IBM Zurich and, from 1969, led silicon sensor research as professor of electronic instrumentation at TU Delft.
Slepian–Wolf coding
Slepian–Wolf coding losslessly compresses correlated data sources with separate encoders and a joint decoder, from a 1973 theorem by David Slepian and Jack Keil Wolf.
Stanley Atcitty
Stanley Atcitty is an American electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who works on grid energy storage and received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2012.
Stanley H. Horowitz
Stanley H. Horowitz (1925–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at American Electric Power in power system protection and coauthored the standard textbook Power System Relaying.
Stephen B. Cronin
Stephen B. Cronin, also published as S. B. Cronin, is a professor at the University of Southern California known for plasmon-enhanced photocatalysis and studies of 2D materials like graphene.
Stephen D. Senturia
Stephen D. Senturia is an American electrical engineer and Weller Professor emeritus at MIT, a MEMS pioneer who wrote Microsystem Design and founded Polychromix after retiring in 2002.
Stephen D. Umans
Stephen D. Umans is an American electrical engineer specializing in electric machinery who spent 28 years as an MIT research engineer and authored the textbook Electric Machinery.
Stephen O. Rice
Stephen O. Rice (1907–1986) was an American Bell Labs engineer whose 1944–1945 paper "Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise" founded the statistical theory of random noise.
Stephen W. Director
Stephen W. Director is an American electrical engineer known for pioneering work in electronic design automation and as provost of Northeastern University from 2008 to 2015.
Steven A. Cummer
Steven A. Cummer is an American electrical engineer and William H. Younger Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for work on electromagnetic cloaking, acoustic metasurfaces, and sprites.
Steven Sample
Steven Sample was an American electrical engineer whose touch-panel appliance controls appeared in over 300 million home appliances, and the tenth president of USC from 1991 to 2010.