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Gottfried Ungerboeck

Gottfried Ungerboeck is an Austrian communications engineer, the inventor of trellis-coded modulation, who worked at IBM Zurich and Broadcom and received the Marconi Prize in 1996.

Graham C. Goodwin

Graham C. Goodwin, born 1945 in Broken Hill, Australia, is a control engineer at the University of Newcastle whose 1980 adaptive control proof is considered seminal.

Graham V. Candler

Graham V. Candler is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Minnesota known for hypersonic flow simulation, leading the lab behind the US3D solver used on NASA missions.

Grant Willson

C. Grant Willson, born 1939, is an American chemical engineer who invented chemically amplified resists at IBM and won the 2007 National Medal of Technology and 2013 Japan Prize.

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877–1956) was an American electrical engineer who tested thousands of minerals at AT&T and patented the silicon crystal detector in 1906, a forerunner of the transistor.

Gregg T. Beckham

Gregg T. Beckham is an American chemical engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, known for research converting waste plastics and plant biomass into valuable materials.

Gregory B. Baecher

Gregory B. Baecher is an American civil engineer at the University of Maryland, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for probabilistic geotechnical risk methods.

Gregory C. Rutledge

Gregory C. Rutledge is an American chemical engineer, the Lammot du Pont Professor at MIT, known for electrospun polymer nanofibers and molecular simulation of polymer crystals.

Gregory E. Stillman

Gregory E. Stillman, also known as Gregory Eugene Stillman, was an American electrical engineer and semiconductor researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Gregory G. Deierlein

Gregory G. Deierlein is an American structural engineer at Stanford University, director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center since 2002, known for performance-based earthquake engineering and design-code influence.

Gregory H. Huff

Gregory H. Huff is an antenna and microwave systems engineer, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State since 2018 and a 2008 PECASE recipient.

Gregory V. Lowry

Gregory V. Lowry, also published as Greg Lowry, is an American environmental engineer at Carnegie Mellon University known for research on engineered nanomaterials in water, soil, and plants.

Gregory W. Wornell

Gregory W. Wornell is an American electrical engineer on the MIT faculty since 1991, known for digital watermarking and cooperative wireless diversity, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Griff C. Lee

Griff C. Lee is an American civil engineer who helped develop Gulf of Mexico offshore platforms and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Griffin Romigh

Griffin D. Romigh is an American auditory scientist and electrical engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, awarded a 2017 PECASE for early-career research.

Guang‐Hong Yang

Guang-Hong Yang (杨光红) is a Chinese control scientist known for reliable H∞ control and fault-tolerant control, and a distinguished professor at Northeastern University in Shenyang.

Guangwen Zhou

Guangwen Zhou is a materials scientist at Binghamton University in New York who studies oxidation and corrosion at the atomic level using in situ transmission electron microscopy.

Guanjie He

Guanjie He is a British-based materials chemist and engineer who is Professor in Materials Chemistry and Engineering at University College London, known for aqueous zinc-ion batteries and electrocatalysis, and awarded the RSC Harrison-Meldola Medal in 2025.

Gui‐Liang Xu

Gui-Liang Xu is a battery materials chemist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago who uses synchrotron X-rays to study battery degradation, winning a 2025 Early Career Award.

Guihua Yu

Guihua Yu is a materials scientist and engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who develops nanostructured hydrogels for energy storage, electrocatalysis, and solar-driven water purification.

Guillermo Juan Araya

Guillermo Juan Araya, also known as Guillermo Araya, is an Argentine-born computational fluid dynamicist and tenured associate professor at UTSA who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Gunnar Fant

Gunnar Fant (1919–2009) was a Swedish speech scientist and acoustician who founded the source-filter theory of speech production and led speech research at KTH in Stockholm.

Gunnar H. Sohlenius

Gunnar H. Sohlenius is a manufacturing engineering researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, best known for his highly cited 1992 CIRP Annals paper "Concurrent Engineering".

Günter Blöschl

Günter Blöschl is an Austrian engineering hydrologist who heads the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at TU Wien and received the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize.

Günter Gottstein

Günter Gottstein (G. Gottstein, born 1944) is a German materials scientist and physical metallurgist who led grain boundary and recrystallization research at RWTH Aachen University.

Gunter Spur

Günter Spur (1928–2013) was a German production engineering scientist who held the machine tools chair at TU Berlin from 1965 to 1997 and built the Production Technology Centre Berlin.

Gunther Eggeler

Gunther F. Eggeler is a German materials scientist who has led the Chair of Materials Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 1995, studying superalloys and shape memory alloys.

Guosong Hong

Guosong Hong is a materials scientist and neuroengineer, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, known for fluorescent and light-generating materials for deep, non-invasive imaging of the nervous system.

Guoxiu Wang

Guoxiu Wang (G. X. Wang) is an Australian materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, known for research on lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and sodium-ion batteries.

Guozhong Cao

Guozhong Cao (曹国忠) is a materials scientist who holds the Boeing-Steiner professorship at the University of Washington and studies nanostructured materials and coatings for energy applications.