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Rao Y. Surampalli
Rao Y. Surampalli is an American environmental engineer who spent 29 years at the U.S. EPA and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Raphael C. Lee
Raphael C. Lee is an American surgeon and biomedical engineer at the University of Chicago whose research established repairing damaged cell membranes with amphiphilic copolymers.
Rashid Bashir
Rashid Bashir is a bioengineer working in BioMEMS, biosensors, and bionanotechnology, and the 15th dean of the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2018.
Ravi Shankar Prasher
Ravi Shankar Prasher is an American mechanical engineer who works on nanoscale heat transport and thermal management of electronics, and is Chief Technology Officer of Bloom Energy.
Ravi V. Bellamkonda
Ravi V. Bellamkonda is a biomedical engineer known for neural interfaces and the tumor monorail device that lures brain tumor cells out of the brain; he became Ohio State's 18th president in 2026.
Ray H. Baughman
Ray H. Baughman (1943–2025) was an American materials scientist who directed the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas and pioneered carbon nanotube yarns and artificial muscles.
Ray H. Boundy
Ray H. Boundy (1903–1992) was an American chemical engineer who spent forty-two years at Dow Chemical, rising to vice-president and first full-time director of research.
Ray R. Irani
Ray R. Irani is a Lebanese-born American physical chemist, born in Beirut, who served as chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum from 1990 to 2011.
Ray W. Clough
Ray W. Clough (1920–2016) was an American structural and earthquake engineer at UC Berkeley, co-developer of the finite element method and co-author of Dynamics of Structures.
Raymond C. Loehr
Raymond C. Loehr (1931–2021) was an American environmental engineer, an expert on industrial and hazardous waste treatment who held a chaired professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.
Raymond D. Kell
Raymond D. Kell (Ray D. Kell) directed television camera research at RCA from 1930, helped create the American 525-line TV standard, and gave his name to the Kell factor.
Raymond D. Mindlin
Raymond D. Mindlin (1906–1987) was an American applied mechanician at Columbia University, known for Mindlin plate theory, the Mindlin problem, and generalized continuum theories of elasticity.
Raymond F. Decker
Raymond F. Decker is an American metallurgist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980, known as co-inventor of maraging steels and co-founder of Thixomat.
Raymond J. Krizek
Raymond J. Krizek is an American geotechnical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering who taught civil engineering at Northwestern University for 59 years, retiring in 2022.
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff (1917–1985) was an American aeronautical engineer known for work on aeroelasticity and aircraft structural dynamics, the textbook Aeroelasticity (1955), and leadership at MIT and NASA.
Raymond Viskanta
Raymond Viskanta (1931–2021) was a Lithuanian-born American mechanical engineer and Purdue professor known for pioneering research on radiative heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
Raymond W. Ketchledge
Raymond W. Ketchledge (1919–1987) was an American electronics engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who led development of the first electronic telephone switching systems placed in public service in the United States.
Raymond Wilson (optical engineer)
Raymond Wilson (1928–2018) was an engineer at the European Southern Observatory who invented active optics, enabling thin lightweight telescope mirrors, and shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.
Rebecca Schulman
Rebecca Schulman is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University whose lab programs DNA circuits and self-assembling nanostructures to compute and actuate soft materials.
Red Whittaker
Red Whittaker is an American roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University known as the father of field robotics and winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
Reg Davies
Reg Davies (1936–2022) was a British-born chemical engineer and particle scientist who spent 23 years at DuPont, retiring as a DuPont Fellow leading its Particle Science and Technology group.
Reginald Cooper
Reginald Cooper is an American electronics engineer in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, a 2017 PECASE recipient known for radio-frequency electronic warfare research and mentoring.
Rein Ulijn
Rein V. Ulijn is a Dutch-born biomaterials scientist who directs the Nanoscience Initiative at CUNY's Advanced Science Research Center, known for enzyme-responsive peptide hydrogels and peptide discovery methods.
Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela
Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela is a Chilean-born wireless researcher who directs Wireless Communications Research at Nokia Bell Labs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Reiner Kirchheim
Reiner Kirchheim is a German metallurgist at the University of Göttingen, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for work on hydrogen in metals.
Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr.
Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. (1914–1996) was an American extractive metallurgist and Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and co-inventor of the QSL lead-smelting process.
Reinhold H. Dauskardt
Reinhold H. Dauskardt is a materials scientist who holds the Bowes Professorship at Stanford University, known for thin-film adhesion, perovskite solar cell manufacturing, and skin biomechanics.
Reinhold Rudenberg
Reinhold Rudenberg was a German-born electrical engineer who headed the scientific department at Siemens, filed the first electron microscope patents in 1931, and became a Harvard professor.
René A. J. Janssen
René A. J. Janssen is a Dutch physical organic chemist at TU Eindhoven who leads research on organic and perovskite solar cells and won the 2015 Spinoza Prize.
Rene H. Miller
Rene H. Miller (1916–2003) was an American aerospace engineer at MIT and a pioneer of helicopter rotor aeromechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1968.