Engineers and materials scientists

Plato Malozemoff

Plato Malozemoff (1909–1997) was an American mining engineer and metallurgist who led Newmont Mining Corporation from 1954 to 1985, growing it from $147 million to $2.3 billion.

Po-Chun Hsu

Po-Chun Hsu is a materials scientist known for textiles that cool the body by radiative heat transfer, and an assistant professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago since 2022.

Po‐Yen Chen

Po-Yen Chen is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Maryland who uses machine learning and robotics to discover sustainable materials.

Pol D. Spanos

Pol D. Spanos is a Greek-born mechanical engineer at Rice University known for stochastic dynamics and structural reliability, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Pol Duwez

Pol Duwez (1907–1984) was a Belgian-born American materials scientist and Caltech professor who discovered metallic glasses by splat quenching, first reported in a 1960 gold–silicon alloy.

Polina Anikeeva

Polina Anikeeva is a materials scientist at MIT who develops flexible neural probes and wireless methods for controlling neurons, and heads MIT's materials science department since 2024.

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Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel is a British professor of optical communications and networks at University College London who founded the Optical Networks Group in 1994 and set multiple fiber-capacity records.

Pooi See Lee is a materials scientist and President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, working on flexible electronics, soft actuators, and stimuli-responsive materials.

Povl Ole Fanger

Povl Ole Fanger (1934–2006) was a Danish scientist at the Technical University of Denmark known for the PMV thermal comfort model and the olf and decipol units.

Prabha S. Kundur

Prabha Shankar Kundur (1939–2018) was a Canadian electrical engineer known for work on power system stability, author of the standard textbook Power System Stability and Control.

Prakash C. Kapur

Prakash C. Kapur, born 1935 in Lahore, is an Indian mineral processing scientist who taught at IIT Kanpur and is a US National Academy of Engineering Foreign Associate.

Pramod K. Varshney

Pramod K. Varshney, born 1952, is an Indian-born American electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University, best known for pioneering distributed detection and data fusion theory.

Pramod Reddy

Pramod Sangi Reddy is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan known for measuring radiative heat transfer between surfaces separated by nanometer gaps.

Praveen Chaudhari

Praveen Chaudhari (1937–2010) was an Indian-born American materials physicist who led IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, directed Brookhaven National Laboratory, and won the National Medal of Technology in 1995.

Priya Vashishta

Priya Vashishta is an American materials scientist who holds the Fluor Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, known for billion-atom molecular dynamics simulations of ceramics and nanomaterials.

Pulickel M. Ajayan

Pulickel M. Ajayan is a materials scientist and professor at Rice University who worked in the NEC group where carbon nanotubes were discovered and leads battery recycling research.

Qian Xuesen (钱学森)

Qian Xuesen, also known as Hsue-Shen Tsien (钱学森), was a Chinese aerodynamicist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and, after his 1955 deportation, led China's missile and space programs.

Qiangfei Xia

Qiangfei Xia is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for memristor research, neuromorphic computing, and co-founding the AI accelerator startup TetraMem.

Qiaoliang Bao

Qiaoliang Bao (鲍桥梁) is a materials scientist working on graphene and 2D material photonics, known for graphene saturable absorbers, polarizers, and anisotropic polaritons in molybdenum trioxide.

Qibing Pei

Qibing Pei (裴启兵) is a materials scientist known for dielectric elastomer artificial muscles and solid-state cooling, long a professor at UCLA and from 2026 at the University of Macau.

Qilei Song

Qilei Song is a Chinese chemical engineer known for microporous polymer membranes for gas separation and redox flow batteries, and a professor at the University of Birmingham.

Qilin Li

Qilin Li is an environmental engineer, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor at Rice University, and co-director of the NSF NEWT water treatment center, researching desalination and wastewater reuse.

Qing Wang (engineer, National University of Singapore)

Qing Wang, also known as Wang Qing (王庆), is a Singapore-based materials scientist and engineer at the National University of Singapore known for inventing redox targeting-based flow batteries.

Qing Wang (engineer, Pennsylvania State University)

Qing Wang is a materials scientist and professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, known for dielectric polymers and nanocomposites for high-temperature energy storage.

Qing Zhang

Qing Zhang (张青) is a Chinese nanophotonics and materials scientist, a tenured associate professor at Peking University since 2022, known for halide perovskite nanolasers and room-temperature exciton polaritons.

Qing-Huo Liu

Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.

Qing-Long Han

Qing-Long Han is an Australian control engineer who has been Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne since 2016, known for time-delay and networked control systems.

Qinghuang Lin (林庆煌)

Qinghuang Lin (林庆煌) is a materials engineer working on photoresists, lithography, and semiconductor nanofabrication, elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Qingyu Yan

Qingyu Yan (颜清宇), also known as Alex Yan, is a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who researches thermoelectric materials, batteries, and electrocatalysis, and won the Nanyang Research Award in 2024.