Engineers and materials scientists

Kevin Sivula

Kevin Sivula is an American chemical engineer and full professor at EPFL in Switzerland, where he leads research on photoelectrochemistry for solar fuels and carbon dioxide reduction.

Kevin Solomon

Kevin V. Solomon is a chemical and biological engineer at the University of Delaware known for engineering anaerobic fungi and testing plastic-degrading enzymes, who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British cyberneticist at the University of Reading known for implanting chips and electrodes into his own body to link his nervous system to computers.

Khaled Ben Letaief is a Tunisian-born wireless communications researcher at HKUST, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for adaptive resource allocation work foundational to 4G cellular systems.

Khalil Amine

Khalil Amine is a Moroccan-born materials scientist who leads the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, known for the lithium-rich NMC cathode used in most electric vehicles.

Oct 10, 2026

Khalil B Ramadi

Khalil B Ramadi is a bioengineer and Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon known for ingestible electronic pills, including the FLASH stimulator and IMAG smart pill.

Ki Tae Nam

Ki Tae Nam (남기태) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for virus-templated lithium-ion battery electrodes and peptide-directed chiral gold nanoparticles.

Kibum Kang

Kibum Kang (강기범) is a South Korean materials scientist and associate professor at KAIST who works on two-dimensional materials and is known for wafer-scale growth of atomically thin semiconducting films.

Kilwon Cho

Kilwon Cho (조길원) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at POSTECH, known for research on organic semiconductors and flexible electronics, who led the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics from 2011 to 2020.

Kim F. Hayes

Kim F. Hayes is an environmental chemist and Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the University of Michigan, known for research on mineral-water interfaces and chlorinated-solvent remediation.

Kim Il-doo

Kim Il-doo is a South Korean materials scientist, Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST, known for exhaled-breath sensors and electrospun nanofibers that protect lithium metal battery anodes.

King-Sun Fu

King-Sun Fu (1930–1985) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer at Purdue University, called the father of automatic pattern recognition, first president of the IAPR, and founding editor of IEEE TPAMI.

Kirill Alexandrov

Kirill Alexandrov is an Australian molecular and synthetic biologist, CSIRO-QUT Inaugural Professor of Synthetic Biology at Queensland University of Technology since 2018, working on protein switches and diagnostics.

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran is an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researches high-power-density electric machines and superconducting machinery for aircraft propulsion, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Kisuk Kang

Kisuk Kang is a South Korean materials scientist who has been a professor at Seoul National University since 2011, known for battery cathode design and oxygen-redox chemistry.

Klas Tybrandt

Klas Tybrandt is a Swedish professor of materials science who heads the Soft Electronics group at Linköping University, known for ionic circuits and stretchable gold-nanowire electrodes for neural interfaces.

Klaus D. Timmerhaus

Klaus D. Timmerhaus (1924–2011) was an American chemical engineer and cryogenics researcher who spent 42 years on the University of Colorado Boulder faculty and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Klaus Oswatitsch

Klaus Oswatitsch (1910–1993) was an Austrian fluid dynamicist and gas dynamicist who held the fluid mechanics chair at the Vienna University of Technology from 1960 to 1980.

Klaus Schönert

Klaus Schönert (1927–2011) was a German comminution scientist and professor of mineral processing at the Technical University of Clausthal whose research led to the high-pressure grinding roll.

Sep 19, 2026

Klavs Jensen

Klavs Jensen, born in 1952, is a chemical engineer at MIT known for developing micro and mini flow reactors for pharmaceutical manufacturing and portable energy.

Oct 10, 2026

Knud Rahbek

Knud Rahbek (1891–1971) was a Danish electrical engineer who discovered the Johnsen–Rahbek electrostatic adhesion effect with Alfred Johnsen in 1917, and later helped build Denmark's first radio stations.

Kobi Cohen

Kobi Cohen (קובי כהן) is an Israeli signal processing and communications researcher, an Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University known for deep reinforcement learning for dynamic spectrum access.

Kōji Kobayashi (electronics engineer)

Kōji Kobayashi (小林宏治) was a Japanese electronics engineer who spent his career at NEC, becoming president in 1964 and conceiving the C&C strategy of integrating computers and communications.

Konrad Hungerbühler

Konrad Hungerbühler, born 1952 in Zürich, is a Swiss chemical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus who held the chair of safety and environmental technology from 1994 to 2018.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский)

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was a Russian and Soviet schoolteacher in Kaluga who founded the theory of spaceflight, deriving the rocket equation and proposing liquid-propellant multistage rockets decades before any flew.

Korneel Rabaey

Korneel Rabaey, born in 1977, is a Belgian environmental biotechnologist and professor at Ghent University known for bioelectrochemical systems, his 2012 Science review, and founding CAPTURE and HYDROHM.

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian materials scientist and professor at the University of Sydney whose laboratory invented a swallowable capsule that senses gases in the gut.

Kripa K. Varanasi

Kripa K. Varanasi, also known as Kripa Varanasi, is an MIT professor of mechanical engineering known for interfacial science and co-founding LiquiGlide, whose coatings let ketchup flow from bottles.

Krishnakumar Garikipati

Krishnakumar (Krishna) Garikipati is a computational mechanician who joined the University of Southern California in 2024 after two decades at Michigan, and won the PECASE and DOE Early Career awards.