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Karunesh Ganguly
Karunesh Ganguly is an American physician-scientist and neurologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF and a San Francisco VA researcher, known for brain-machine interfaces that restore speech to paralyzed patients.
Kaspar J. Willam
Kaspar J. Willam (1940–2024) was an Austrian-born civil engineer who pioneered computational modeling of concrete and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
Katharine G. Frase
Katharine G. Frase is an American materials scientist who spent about 30 years at IBM and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Katharine Page
Katharine (Kate) Page is a materials scientist and neutron scattering instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee professor who received a PECASE award in 2019.
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Katherine Kuchenbecker is an American mechanical engineer and haptics researcher who directs the Haptic Intelligence department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.
Katherine Ratliff
Katherine Ratliff is a physical scientist and principal investigator at the EPA who studies stormwater contaminant transport and tests air cleaning technologies against infectious aerosols.
Katherine W. Ferrara
Katherine W. Ferrara is an American biomedical engineer known for ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided drug delivery, a National Academy of Engineering member who leads molecular imaging at Stanford.
Kathryn A. Whitehead
Kathryn A. Whitehead, known professionally as Katie Whitehead, is a chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who develops lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery, contributing to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Katia Bertoldi
Katia Bertoldi is an Italian applied mechanician who studies mechanical metamaterials, buckling, and instabilities; she is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at Harvard.
Katie Bouman
Katie Bouman, also known as Katherine L. Bouman, is an American computational imaging scientist at Caltech who helped produce the first images of the black holes M87 and Sagittarius A.
Katsushi Ikeuchi
Katsushi Ikeuchi (池内 克史) is a Japanese computer vision and robotics researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, known for shape from shading and e-Heritage cultural digitization.
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Kaushik Bhattacharya is a materials scientist and mechanician who is the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science at Caltech, known for his mathematical theory of martensitic microstructure.
Kaushik Chowdhury
Kaushik Chowdhury is an Indian-born American wireless networking researcher who won the PECASE award and holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kaushik Rajashekara
Kaushik Rajashekara is an Indian-born American electrical engineer who helped develop the GM EV1 propulsion system, worked at Rolls-Royce, and is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Houston.
Kavin Ammigan
Kavin Ammigan is a materials engineer at Fermilab who develops beam-intercepting materials like high-entropy alloys for high-power accelerators, winning a 2022 DOE Early Career award and a 2025 PECASE.
Kay M. Stanney
Kay M. Stanney is an American human systems engineer known for virtual reality cybersickness research, founder of Design Interactive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Kazimierz Siemienowicz
Kazimierz Siemienowicz, known in Lithuanian as Kazimieras Simonavičius (c. 1600 – after 1651), was a Lithuanian military engineer whose 1650 artillery manual gave the first detailed designs for multi-stage rockets and rocket batteries.
Kazuo Hagimoto
Kazuo Hagimoto (萩本和男) is a Japanese optical communications engineer who shared the 2023 Japan Prize for the erbium-doped fiber amplifier, after a career at NTT and NICT.
Kazutomo Suenaga
Kazutomo Suenaga, also published as Kazu Suenaga, is a Japanese electron microscopist known for single-atom spectroscopy and single-molecule imaging; since 2021 he has been a distinguished professor at The University of Osaka.
Ke Cheng
Ke Cheng is a biomedical engineer and the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, known for inhalable extracellular vesicle therapies for lung cancer and heart repair.
Kees Schouhamer Immink
Kees Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch engineer and coding theorist, born in Rotterdam in 1946, best known for designing the signal codes of the compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc.
Keh-Chyuan Tsai (蔡克铨)
Keh-Chyuan Tsai (蔡克铨) is a Taiwanese structural engineer and professor at National Taiwan University, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for earthquake engineering research.
Keith Edward Knipling
Keith Edward Knipling is an American materials scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory studying structural alloys, atom-probe tomography, and electron microscopy; he received a 2011 PECASE award.
Keith H. Coats
Keith H. Coats (1934–2016) was an American petroleum engineer who pioneered numerical reservoir simulation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Keith K. Millheim
Keith K. Millheim is a petroleum and drilling engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 and awarded the 2006 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal.
Keith P Johnston
Keith P. Johnston is an American chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin known for colloid and interface science, including water/CO2 microemulsions and silicon nanowires.
Keith Pardee
Keith Pardee is a Canadian synthetic biologist at the University of Toronto known for freeze-dried paper diagnostics for Zika and Ebola and portable biomolecular manufacturing.
Keith William Hipel
Keith William Hipel is a Canadian systems design engineer at the University of Waterloo known for conflict resolution and decision-making techniques, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Kelly Johnson (aeronautical engineer)
Kelly Johnson, born Clarence Leonard Johnson, was an American aeronautical engineer at Lockheed who founded the Skunk Works and designed the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird.
Kelly Stephani
Kelly Stephani is an American aerospace engineer and Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies nonequilibrium reacting gas flows around hypersonic reentry vehicles and received a 2019 PECASE award.