Engineers and materials scientists

Ting Xu (materials scientist, University of California, Berkeley)

Ting Xu (徐婷) is a professor of chemistry and of materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley, known for enzyme-embedded plastics that fully compost in days to weeks.

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Tobias Erb

Tobias Erb (born 1979) is a German biochemist and synthetic biologist who directs the Department of Biochemistry and Synthetic Metabolism at the Max Planck Institute in Marburg.

Tobias Hanrath

Tobias Hanrath is a materials chemist and chemical engineer at Cornell University, the Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, who studies semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dot solids.

Tobias Placke is a battery electrochemist known for dual-ion batteries and graphite cathodes, who led the Materials division at MEET and reported the first potassium-based dual-graphite battery in 2017.

Toby Berger

Toby Berger (1940–2022) was an American information theorist and professor at Cornell and the University of Virginia, known for rate-distortion theory, multiterminal source coding, and the Shannon Award.

Todd E. Humphreys

Todd E. Humphreys is an aerospace engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who pioneered GPS security research, building a portable civilian GPS spoofer.

Todd Humphreys

Todd Humphreys is an aerospace engineer at the University of Texas at Austin known for the first live-signal GPS spoofing attacks on a drone and a superyacht.

Todd Kuiken

Todd Kuiken is an American physiatrist and biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago who developed targeted muscle reinnervation, a surgical technique for prosthetic arm control.

Todd P Coleman

Todd P Coleman is an American electrical engineer and Stanford associate professor of bioengineering, known for co-developing stretchable epidermal electronics and a wearable stomach-monitoring device tested in children.

Tomas A. Palacios

Tomas A. Palacios is a Spanish-trained electrical engineer at MIT, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor, director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories, and a pioneer of two-dimensional electronics.

Tomas Lozano-Perez

Tomás Lozano-Pérez is an MIT computer scientist who introduced configuration space for robot motion planning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Tomoji Kawai

Tomoji Kawai is a Japanese nanotechnology scientist at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Osaka, known for identifying single DNA nucleotides by tunnelling current.

Tomy Sebastian

Tomy Sebastian is an Indian-born American electrical engineer known for permanent-magnet motor design and automotive electrification, Director of Motor Drive Systems at Halla Mechatronics in Michigan.

Tonghun Lee

Tonghun Lee is a mechanical engineer known for high-speed laser imaging of reacting flows and plasma-assisted combustion, who received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award and is listed as a Stanford professor.

Tongwen Chen

Tongwen Chen is a Canadian control and systems engineer, a professor at the University of Alberta and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair known for event-triggered control.

Tonio Buonassisi

Tonio Buonassisi is a solar-energy researcher and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he heads the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2016.

Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell is an American engineer, designer, and entrepreneur known as a co-creator of the iPod and co-founder of Nest Labs, maker of the Nest Learning Thermostat.

Tony George Constantinides

Tony George Constantinides is a British engineer and Emeritus Professor of Signal Processing at Imperial College London, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Tonya L. Kuhl

Tonya L. Kuhl is an American chemical engineer, professor and chair at UC Davis, known for direct measurements of forces between biological membranes and polymers.

Torsten Brezesinski

Torsten Brezesinski is a materials scientist who leads battery research in the KIT/BASF joint laboratory BELLA at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for ordered mesoporous electrode materials.

Toshio Mura

Toshio Mura (村外志夫, 1925–2009) was a Japanese-born mechanician who built the field of micromechanics at Northwestern University and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

Tresa M. Pollock

Tresa M. Pollock is an American materials scientist, the Alcoa Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for high-temperature jet engine alloys and 3D-printable superalloys.

Tsu-Jae Liu

Tsu-Jae King Liu is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for co-developing the FinFET, the 3D transistor design used in leading-edge computer chips.

Tsuneo Nakahara

Tsuneo Nakahara (中原恒雄, 1930–2016) was a Japanese communications engineer who led Sumitomo Electric's optical fiber work, including the VAD process, and received the 2002 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Tsutomu Miyasaka

Tsutomu Miyasaka is a Japanese photoelectrochemist at Toin University of Yokohama who first proposed the perovskite solar cell in 2009, now honored with the 2026 Kyoto Prize.

Tsuyoshi Sekitani

Tsuyoshi Sekitani (関谷毅) is a Japanese electronics engineer known for stretchable electronics and flexible organic transistor integrated circuits, and a professor at Osaka University since 2014.

Tung H. Lin

Tung H. Lin, also known as Tung-Hua Lin, was a Chinese-born American engineer and UCLA professor known for micromechanical theories of plasticity and for designing China's first twin-engine airplane.

Tung Hua Lin

Tung Hua Lin (1911–2007) was a Chinese-born American engineer and UCLA professor known for designing China's first twin-engine airplane and for research on the safety of building materials.

Tuomo Suntola

Tuomo Suntola, born 1943 in Tampere, Finland, is a Finnish physicist who invented atomic layer deposition in 1974 and won the 2018 Millennium Technology Prize.