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Rohit Karnik
Rohit Karnik is an Indian-American mechanical engineer at MIT, a professor of mechanical engineering who directs the J-WAFS lab and studies nanofluidics and graphene membranes.
Roland J. Menassa
Roland J. Menassa is an American manufacturing engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 and the first VP of Manufacturing Technology at Skyline Champion.
Roland Siegwart
Roland Siegwart, born 1959, is a Swiss robotics professor at ETH Zurich known for autonomous navigation, drones, and the textbook Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Roland W. Schmitt
Roland W. Schmitt (1923–2017) was an American physicist who headed General Electric's central research laboratory and served as the 16th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Rolf Eliassen
Rolf Eliassen (1911–1997) was an American civil and environmental engineer, a professor at MIT and later Stanford, where he founded the university's environmental engineering program and researched water treatment.
Romain Fleury
Romain Fleury is a scientist in wave physics and electrical engineering who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering at EPFL in Switzerland, known for training physical neural networks.
Roman Stocker
Roman Stocker, born 1975, is an Italian environmental engineer and microbial ecologist, professor of Groundwater and Hydromechanics at ETH Zurich since 2015, known for pioneering microfluidics-based study of marine microbes.
Ron Alterovitz
Ron Alterovitz is an American computer scientist and roboticist at UNC-Chapel Hill, known for autonomous medical needle steering for lung biopsy and a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.
Ron Rohrer
Ron Rohrer, also known as Ronald A. Rohrer, is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, creating the CANCER program that led to SPICE.
Ron Weiss
Ron Weiss is an MIT professor of biological engineering and EECS, director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center, and a pioneer of synthetic biology who programs cells with genetic circuits.
Ronald A. Howard
Ronald A. Howard (1934–2024) was an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the discipline of decision analysis, introduced policy iteration and influence diagrams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Ronald A. Rohrer
Ronald A. Rohrer is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Ronald Adrian
Ronald Adrian is an American mechanical engineer and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, known for developing particle image velocimetry, a leading method for measuring turbulent flow.
Ronald Coifman
Ronald Coifman, born 1941, is a Yale mathematician known for wavelet theory, Coiflets, and diffusion maps for extracting structure from data; he received the National Medal of Science.
Ronald F. Probstein
Ronald F. Probstein (1928–2021) was an American mechanical engineer and fluid mechanician, a professor at MIT whose research on hypersonic flow and shock waves informed early spacecraft design and ballistic missile reentry physics.
Ronald G. Larson
Ronald G. Larson, born 1953 in Minnesota, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for polymer rheology and elastic flow instabilities.
Ronald Owen Hamburger
Ronald Owen Hamburger is an American structural and seismic engineer, Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger in San Francisco, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Ronald P. Nordgren
Ronald P. Nordgren is an American mechanical engineer at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for offshore engineering and petroleum technology.
Ronald Polcawich
Ronald G. Polcawich is an American materials scientist who develops piezoelectric MEMS at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Maryland, receiving the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.
Ronald Smelt
Ronald Smelt, known as Roy Smelt, was an Anglo-American aeronautical engineer who was chief scientist of Lockheed and worked with Frank Whittle on the first jet flight.
Ronald V. Schmidt
Ronald V. Schmidt (1944–2022) was an American electrical engineer known for research on acoustic surface waves and integrated optics at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and for co-founding SynOptics Communications.
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.
Rong Xu
Rong Xu is a Singapore-based chemical engineer and professor at Nanyang Technological University who works on photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, converting solar energy to fuels through water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction.
Rong-Yu Wan
Rong-Yu Wan (1932–2009) was a Chinese metallurgist at Newmont Mining, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for her work on refractory gold ores.
Rongsheng Roger Ruan
Rongsheng Roger Ruan is a professor at the University of Minnesota who directs the Center for Biorefining and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Ross A. Hatton
Ross A. Hatton is a physical chemist and professor at the University of Warwick who researches transparent electrodes for organic and tin perovskite solar cells.
Ross B. Corotis
Ross B. Corotis is an American civil and structural engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for reliability methods.
Ross E. McKinney
Ross E. McKinney was an American environmental engineer, a National Academy of Engineering member called the "Father of Activated Sludge" for quantifying wastewater treatment microbiology.
Ross William Boulanger
Ross William Boulanger is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Roy Bainer
Roy Bainer (1902–1990) was an American agricultural engineer at the University of California, Davis, where he served as founding dean of the College of Engineering from 1962.