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Barrie Gilbert

Barrie Gilbert (1937–2020) was an English-born analog integrated-circuit engineer who worked at Tektronix and Analog Devices and created the Gilbert cell mixer and the translinear principle.

Barry P. Rand

Barry P. Rand is an American electrical engineer and professor at Princeton University whose research on organic and perovskite thin films targets solar cells, light emitting devices, and transistors.

Bede Liu

Bede Liu (刘必治) was a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and a founder of digital signal processing who spent 53 years at Princeton, developing methods for filtering and compressing digital signals.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi (بهزاد رضوی) is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA known for pioneering high-speed CMOS communication circuit design and for widely used graduate textbooks on analog, RF, and data-converter integrated-circuit design.

Ben G. Streetman

Ben G. Streetman is an American semiconductor engineer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of the textbook Solid State Electronic Devices.

Benjamin Bauer

Benjamin Bauer, born Benjamin Baumzweiger (1913–1979), was an American acoustics engineer who invented the Uniphase principle behind the Shure Unidyne cardioid microphone and developed the SQ quadraphonic matrix at CBS.

Bernard Gold

Bernard Gold, known professionally as Ben Gold, was an American electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory who co-authored the first treatise on digital signal processing in 1969.

Bernard Kippelen

Bernard Kippelen is a French-American electrical engineer and Joseph M. Pettit Professor at Georgia Tech, known for organic optoelectronics and a 2012 Science paper on low-work-function electrodes for organic devices.

Bernard Tellegen

Bernard Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer at Philips who invented the pentode radio valve in 1926, defined the gyrator in 1948, and gave his name to a network theorem.

Bijan Davari

Bijan Davari is an electrical engineer at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center known for CMOS device scaling and shallow-trench isolation, appointed an IBM Fellow in 1996.

Bill Dally

Bill Dally is a computer scientist and electrical engineer who has been Chief Scientist at NVIDIA since 2009, known for wormhole routing and stream processing that led to GPU computing.

Bishnu S. Atal

Bishnu S. Atal, born 1933 in Kanpur, India, is an Indian-born speech researcher who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and created the CELP speech coding method.

Björn Ottersten

Björn Ottersten is a Swedish electrical engineer in signal processing and wireless communications, known for inventing SDMA and a professor at KTH Stockholm since 1991.

Bradford Parkinson

Bradford Parkinson, born 1935, is an American systems engineer and retired Air Force colonel who served as chief architect and first program director of GPS.

Bram Nauta

Bram Nauta (born 1964) is a Dutch electrical engineer at the University of Twente, known for the Nauta circuit and the 2023 NWO Stevin Prize.

Brian A. Lail

Brian A. Lail is an American electrical engineer who researches infrared and optical antennas, and is a professor and department head at Florida Institute of Technology.

Bruce Edward Gnade

Bruce Edward Gnade is an American materials scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Bruce F. Wollenberg

Bruce F. Wollenberg is an American power systems engineer and University of Minnesota professor emeritus who co-wrote the standard text Power Generation, Operation and Control.

Burn-Jeng Lin

Burn-Jeng Lin (林本堅, born 1942) is a Taiwanese-American optical lithography researcher known as the father of immersion lithography, the technique that underpins most advanced semiconductor manufacturing today.

Calvin Quate

Calvin Quate (1923–2019) was an American engineer and physicist at Stanford University, known for inventing the scanning acoustic microscope and co-inventing the atomic force microscope in 1985.

Carl C. Chambers

Carl C. Chambers (1907–1987) was an American electrical engineer who directed the Moore School of Electrical Engineering from 1950 to 1953 and later served as a University of Pennsylvania vice president.

Carl Covalt Chambers

Carl Covalt Chambers (1907–1987) was an electrical engineer who directed Penn's Moore School of Electrical Engineering from 1950 to 1953 and later served as a university vice president.

Carson W. Taylor

Carson W. Taylor is an American power system engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for grid stability work at the Bonneville Power Administration.

Carver Mead

Carver Andress Mead is an American electrical engineer at Caltech, a pioneer of VLSI chip design credited with coining Moore's Law and a founder of neuromorphic engineering.

Cassius Chapin Cutler

Cassius Chapin Cutler, known professionally as C. Chapin Cutler, was an American communications engineer at Bell Labs known for the Cutler feed radar antenna and inventing DPCM compression.

Chang Chun-Yen

Chang Chun-Yen (张俊彦) was a Taiwanese electrical engineer and semiconductor pioneer who created Taiwan's first integrated circuit and served as president of National Chiao Tung University.

Charles Concordia

Charles Concordia (1908–2003) was an American electrical power systems engineer who spent 47 years at General Electric in Schenectady and pioneered the study of how voltage regulators affect synchronous machine stability.

Charles Francis Brush

Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929) was a Cleveland inventor and electrical engineer who made arc lighting practical, built America's first central electric station, and founded Brush Electric.

Charles Ginsburg

Charles Ginsburg was an American electrical engineer who led the Ampex team that built the first practical videotape recorder, demonstrated in 1956, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.

Charles Oatley

Sir Charles William Oatley (1904–1996) was a British electrical engineer at Cambridge whose students built the first SEMs, leading to the 1965 Stereoscan, the first commercial scanning electron microscope.