Engineers and materials scientists

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.

Holly Carlton

Holly Carlton is an American materials scientist and group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, known for synchrotron x-ray studies of 3D-printed metals and a 2025 PECASE award.

Holt Ashley (1923–2006) was an American aeronautical engineer and Stanford professor known for aeroelasticity, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 and awarded the 2003 Daniel Guggenheim Medal.

Hong Yang

Hong Yang is a chemical engineer and materials scientist who holds the Richard C. Alkire Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for mesoporous silica films and electrocatalyst research.

Hongbo Li

Hongbo Li (李红博) is a Chinese materials chemist and professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, known for coating window glass with quantum dots to make large-area luminescent solar concentrators.

Hongbo Zeng

Hongbo Zeng is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in intermolecular forces and interfacial science.

Hongjie Dai

Hongjie Dai (戴宏杰) is a Chinese-born American materials chemist known for carbon nanotube and graphene science, who joined the University of Hong Kong in 2023 after a long Stanford career.

Hongli Zhu

Hongli Zhu, also published as Hongli (Julie) Zhu, is a mechanical and industrial engineer and associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston who works on wood-derived nanomaterials and sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries.

Hongtei Eric Tseng

Hongtei Eric Tseng is an automotive control engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, whose algorithms run in Ford, Lincoln, Jaguar, and Volvo vehicles.

Hongwei Duan

Hongwei Duan is a materials scientist and biomedical engineer who is Professor and Acting Chair at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, researching plasmonic nanomaterials for biosensing and cancer therapy.

Hongyou Fan

Hongyou Fan is a materials chemist and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, known for nanocrystal self-assembly and pressure-induced nanomaterial synthesis.

Horacio D. Espinosa

Horacio D. Espinosa is an American mechanical engineer, the Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for bridging nanoscale experimentation and atomistic simulations.

Horst W. Hahn

Horst W. Hahn is a German materials scientist, a University of Arizona professor elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Hossam Haick

Hossam Haick is a Technion professor of chemical engineering who pioneered the NA-NOSE breath test, showing in 2009 that gold-nanoparticle sensors can detect lung cancer in exhaled breath.

Howard Brenner

Howard Brenner (1929–2014) was an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist, Willard Henry Dow Professor at MIT from 1981 to 2005, who coauthored Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics, one of the most cited books in fluid mechanics.

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Howard Cary

Howard Cary, born Henry Howard Cary (1908–1991), was an American engineer who led the Beckman DU spectrophotometer's development and founded Applied Physics Corporation, maker of Cary recording spectrophotometers.

Howard Kent Birnbaum

Howard Kent Birnbaum (1932–2005) was an American materials scientist and metallurgist at the University of Illinois, known for the hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement.

Howard L. Hartman

Howard L. Hartman (1924–2002) was an American mining engineer who held an endowed chair at the University of Alabama and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Howard Pearlman

Howard Pearlman is an American combustion scientist who earned a 1992 Ph.D. at Northwestern University and studied flame balls, cool flames, and low-temperature autoignition in reduced gravity.

Howard R. Baum

Howard R. Baum (1936–2025) was an American mechanical engineer and NIST Fellow whose 1978 low Mach number formulation with Ronald Rehm underlies the Fire Dynamics Simulator used by fire safety engineers worldwide.

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.

Howard Wilson Emmons

Howard Wilson Emmons (1912–1998) was an American mechanical engineer at Harvard, called "Mr. Fire Research," who chaired the study behind the Fire Research and Safety Act of 1968.

Hoyt C. Hottel

Hoyt Clarke Hottel was an American chemical engineer at MIT from 1928 whose gas emissivity charts and solar energy research made furnace and solar heating design quantitative.

Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang

Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang is a mechanical engineer and associate professor at North Carolina State University who received a 2017 PECASE award for research on venous valve tissue mechanics in chronic venous insufficiency.

Hsieh W. Shen

Hsieh W. Shen, also known as Hsieh Wen Shen, was an environmental engineer and hydraulician at UC Berkeley who pioneered reservoir flow control for river restoration.

Hsieh Wen Shen

Hsieh Wen Shen (1931–2021) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer and hydraulician, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for using reservoir flow control to restore rivers.

Hsien K. Cheng

Hsien Kei Cheng (1923–2007) was a Chinese-born American aerospace engineer at USC, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for hypersonic flow theory.

Huanting Wang

Huanting Wang is a chemical engineer and Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University, known for separation membranes for water treatment, desalination, and renewable energy.

Hubert H. G. Savenije

Hubert H. G. Savenije (born 1952) is a Dutch hydrologist and emeritus professor of hydrology at Delft University of Technology, known for his analytical theory of salt intrusion in estuaries.