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Herbert Paul Maruska
Herbert Paul Maruska is an American engineer who, as a young scientist at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, created the first gallium nitride blue-violet LED, reported in 1972.
Herbert Woodson
Herbert Woodson (1925–2018) was an American electrical engineer at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Hermann A. Haus
Hermann A. Haus (1925–2003) was an Austrian-American electrical engineer and physicist at MIT known for work on noise in quantum electronics, optical fiber communications, and ultrashort-pulse optics, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1995.
Hermann K. Gummel
Hermann K. Gummel, also known as Hermann Gummel, was a German-born physicist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered semiconductor device modeling and won the first Phil Kaufman Award in 1994.
Hiroshi Inose
Hiroshi Inose (猪瀬 博, 1927–2000) was a Japanese electrical engineer at the University of Tokyo who invented time slot interchange, the switching principle at the heart of digital telephone systems.
Hoi‐Jun Yoo
Hoi-Jun Yoo (유회준) is a South Korean electrical engineer and KAIST professor since 1998 who designs low-power AI and wearable healthcare chips, including the UNPU accelerator.
Howard S. Jones Jr.
Howard St. Claire Jones Jr. (1921–2005) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who held 31 patents, including conformal antennas used in U.S. missiles and the Voyager spacecraft.
Hugh Rudnick
Hugh Rudnick is a Chilean electrical engineer and emeritus professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for work on electricity market deregulation and regulation across Latin America.
Ian Ross (electrical engineer)
Ian Munro Ross (1927–2013) was a British-born electrical engineer who built an early field-effect transistor and led Bell Labs as president from 1979 to 1991.
Ilesanmi Adesida
Ilesanmi Adesida, born in Nigeria in 1949, is an electrical engineer known for nanometer-scale semiconductor fabrication who served as Dean of Engineering and Provost at the University of Illinois.
Ira J. Pitel
Ira J. Pitel is an American power-electronics engineer who founded Magna-Power Electronics in Flemington, New Jersey, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Irene Carswell Peden
Irene Carswell Peden (1925–2025) was an American electrical engineer at the University of Washington who in 1970 became the first American woman to work in the Antarctic interior.
Irving S. Reed
Irving Stoy Reed (1923–2012) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer who co-invented the Reed–Solomon codes, now used in CDs, DVDs, QR codes, and spacecraft.
Irwin Dorros
Irwin Dorros was an American telecommunications engineer, educated at MIT and Columbia, who joined Bell Labs in 1956 and oversaw technical work at Bellcore for the seven regional Bell companies, winning the 1991 IEEE Founders Medal.
Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin M. Jacobs, also known as Irwin Mark Jacobs, is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Qualcomm in 1985 and commercialized CDMA, the foundation of 3G networks.
Isaac L. Auerbach
Isaac L. Auerbach (1921–1992) was an American computer engineer who helped design the BINAC and UNIVAC I, and served as founding president of IFIP from 1960 to 1965.
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland, born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska, is an American computer scientist who created Sketchpad, built the first head-mounted display, and won the 1988 Turing Award.
Ivan T. Frisch
Ivan T. Frisch (1937–2024) was an American communications network scientist who led the design of ARPANET's network structure and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
J. Lewis Blackburn
J. Lewis Blackburn (1913–1997) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at Westinghouse, led the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee, and wrote the standard protective relaying textbooks.
J. Nicholas Laneman
J. Nicholas (Nick) Laneman is an American electrical engineer at the University of Notre Dame known for cooperative wireless communication research and a 2006 PECASE award.
Jack Wolf
Jack Keil Wolf (1935–2011) was an American information and coding theorist known for the Slepian–Wolf theorem and for bringing maximum likelihood detection to magnetic data storage.
Jacob Millman
Jacob Millman (1911–1991) was a Russia-born American electrical engineer and Columbia University professor whose eight McGraw-Hill textbooks shaped electronics teaching and whose name survives in Millman's theorem.
Jacob Rabinow
Jacob Rabinow (1910–1999) was a Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer at the National Bureau of Standards who held about 230 U.S. patents, including the magnetic particle clutch and a letter-sorting machine.
Jacques I. Pankove
Jacques I. Pankove, also known as Jacques Isaac Pankove, was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA team that made the first gallium nitride blue LED in 1971.
Jacques Isaac Pankove
Jacques Isaac Pankove (1922–2016) was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA Laboratories team that built the first gallium nitride blue LEDs in 1971.
Jae Yeong Park
Jae Yeong Park (박재영) is a South Korean electronic engineer and professor at Kwangwoon University known for MEMS, wearable biosensors, energy harvesting, and leading 11 international sensor standards.
James Adeche Momoh
James Adeche Momoh is a Nigerian-American electrical engineer and Howard University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for grid optimization and power grid policy in Africa.
James D. Meindl
James D. Meindl (1933–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford and Georgia Tech known for low-power microelectronics and his 2001 Science paper on silicon's limits.
James H. Mulligan Jr.
James H. Mulligan Jr. was an American electrical engineer, chairman of electrical engineering at New York University from 1952 to 1968 and president of the IEEE in 1971.
James J. Mikulski
James J. Mikulski is an American electrical engineer who led development of Motorola's DynaTAC hand-held cellular telephone system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.