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Andrew Grove
Andrew Grove, also known as Andy Grove and born András István Gróf, was a Hungarian-born American engineer who was Intel's first hire and led it as CEO from 1987.
Andrew H. Bobeck
Andrew H. Bobeck was an American engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who co-invented magnetic bubble memory, a solid-state computer memory, and held more than 120 United States patents.
Andrew R. Hileman
Andrew R. Hileman, known as Bob Hileman, was an American electric power engineer at Westinghouse known for his work on lightning and power system performance.
Andrew Viterbi
Andrew Viterbi, born Andrea Viterbi in Bergamo, Italy, in 1935, is an Italian-born electrical engineer who invented the Viterbi decoding algorithm and co-founded Linkabit and Qualcomm.
Angel G. Jordan
Angel G. Jordan (Angel Jordán Goñi) was a Spanish-born American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, provost from 1983 to 1991 and a 1986 National Academy of Engineering member.
Anjan Bose
Anjan Bose is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Regents Professor at Washington State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for power grid simulators and computational tools.
Antoine Kahn
Antoine Kahn is an electrical engineer and named professor at Princeton University who studies semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, including organic and perovskite materials for LEDs and solar cells.
Antoni Emil Karbowiak
Antoni Emil ("Toni") Karbowiak (1923–2011) was a Polish-born telecommunications engineer who led the waveguide group at STL in Harlow, where Charles K. Kao started under him.
Antonio J. Conejo
Antonio J. Conejo is a professor of integrated systems engineering at The Ohio State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for power systems planning and electricity markets.
Archie R. Clemins
Archie R. Clemins was a US Navy admiral who commanded the Pacific Fleet from 1996 to 1999 and led the creation of the Navy's IT-21 network.
Archie W. Straiton
Archie W. Straiton (1907–2000) was an American electrical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin known for millimeter-wave radio propagation research and the 1990 IEEE Edison Medal.
Arnaldo M. Angelini
Arnaldo M. Angelini, also known as Arnaldo Maria Angelini, was an Italian electrical engineer, professor of electrotechnics at Sapienza University of Rome, and president of Enel from 1973 to 1979.
Arnold Spielberg
Arnold Meyer Spielberg was an American electrical engineer who designed early computers including the GE-225, which ran the first BASIC, and the IBM 1800; he was the father of director Steven Spielberg.
Arogyaswami Paulraj
Arogyaswami Paulraj, born 1944 in Coimbatore, India, is an Indian-born American electrical engineer and emeritus Stanford professor who invented MIMO spatial multiplexing, the technology behind 4G and Wi-Fi.
Arthur A. Collins
Arthur A. Collins was an American radio engineer and entrepreneur who founded Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1933; his radios carried communications for Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts.
Arthur A. Oliner
Arthur A. Oliner was an American electrical engineer, born in Shanghai in 1921, best known for leaky-wave antenna theory; he led Brooklyn Polytechnic's Microwave Research Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Arthur E. Kennelly
Arthur E. Kennelly (1861–1939) was an American electrical engineer, Edison's principal laboratory assistant, who introduced complex numbers into AC circuit analysis and proposed the ionosphere's Kennelly–Heaviside layer in 1902.
Arthur G. Anderson
Arthur G. Anderson is an engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, one of the earliest IBM computer scientists to receive the distinction.
Arthur Henry Waynick
Arthur Henry Waynick (1905–1982) was an American electrical engineer and radio scientist who founded and directed Penn State's Ionosphere Research Laboratory, headed its electrical engineering department, and was a National Academy of Engineering member.
Arun G. Phadke
Arun G. Phadke (born 1938) is an electrical engineer who, with James S. Thorp, developed the world's first synchronized phasor measurement unit at Virginia Tech in the 1980s.
Arun Netravali
Arun Netravali (1945–2021) was an Indian-born electrical engineer whose motion-compensated video compression work underpinned the MPEG standards, and who served as president of Bell Laboratories from 1999 to 2001.
Arye Nehorai
Arye Nehorai is a signal processing researcher, the Eugene & Martha Lohman Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, known for posterior Cramér–Rao bounds and vector-sensor array processing.
Asad Abidi
Asad Abidi is a Distinguished Chancellor's Professor of electrical engineering at UCLA whose group originated CMOS radio technology in the mid-1990s, enabling single-chip radios in handheld wireless devices.
Asad M. Madni
Asad M. Madni, born 1947 in Mumbai, is an engineer who led the invention of the Quartz MEMS GyroChip used in aircraft and car stability systems.
Auguste G. Ferrie
Auguste G. Ferrie, born Gustave Auguste Ferrié, was a French army engineer and radio pioneer who directed French military radiotelegraphy from 1899 to 1932 and built the Eiffel Tower into a long-wave transmitter reaching 6,000 km.
Aydogan Ozcan
Aydogan Özcan is a Turkish-American engineer at UCLA known for lens-free on-chip microscopy and mobile diagnostics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
B. Don Russell Jr.
B. Don Russell Jr. is an American electrical power engineer at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for work on power system faults.
B. Jayant Baliga
B. Jayant Baliga (Bantval Jayant Baliga) is an electrical engineer who invented the IGBT at General Electric around 1980 and won the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize.
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi is an electrical engineer and the Bohn Professor at Caltech, known for MIMO wireless capacity analysis, space-time coding, and sphere decoding, and a 2002 PECASE recipient.
Bancroft Gherardi Jr.
Bancroft Gherardi Jr. was an American electrical engineer, vice-president and chief engineer of AT&T from 1920 to 1938, who helped open transcontinental telephone service in 1915.