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Mona Diab

Mona T. Diab is a computational linguist and NLP researcher who directs the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, known for Arabic NLP and responsible AI.

Moni Naor

Moni Naor (מוני נאור) is an Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer, professor and dean at the Weizmann Institute, known for work on pseudorandom functions and proof of work.

Monica C. Regalbuto

Monica C. Regalbuto is a Mexican-born American chemical engineer who works on the nuclear fuel cycle, serving as Vice-President of Science and Technology at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

Mónica Lira‐Cantú

Mónica Lira-Cantú, also published as Monica Lira-Cantu, is a Spanish materials scientist who leads the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy group at ICN2 near Barcelona and coordinated the European StableNextSol network on perovskite solar cell stability.

Monica Reza

Monica Reza, known professionally as Monica Jacinto, is an American aerospace materials scientist who co-invented Mondaloy burn-resistant superalloys and led a materials group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Monroe Spaght

Monroe Spaght was an American research chemist who led Shell Oil Company as president and CEO from 1961 to 1965 and as chairman until 1970.

Moon‐Ho Jo

Moon-Ho Jo (조문호) is a South Korean materials scientist, Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2018, who directs an IBS center on atomically thin semiconductors and scaled MoS2 transistors.

Moonsub Shim

Moonsub Shim is an American materials chemist, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2002, known for n-type colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and nanorod LEDs.

Morgan B. Abney

Morgan B. Abney is an American chemical engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center who works on oxygen recovery for spaceflight and received a 2011 PECASE award.

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze (1916–2015) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who worked on petroleum refining and synthetic fuels and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Morgan Sparks

Morgan Sparks (1916–2008) was an American physical chemist who fabricated the first junction transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1951 and directed Sandia National Laboratories from 1972 to 1981.

Morgan Trassin

Morgan Trassin, born 1982, is a materials scientist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies ferroelectric oxide thin films and leads the NEAT team there.

Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah is an American aerospace engineer and astrodynamicist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for ASTRIAGraph, a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, and co-founding Privateer.

Morris Chang (张忠谋)

Morris Chang (張忠謀, born 1931, Ningbo) founded TSMC in 1987 as an ITRI–Philips joint venture, pioneering the pure-play foundry model after a 25-year Texas Instruments career; retired as chairman June 5, 2018.

Morris Cohen (metallurgist)

Morris Cohen (1911–2005) was an American metallurgist at MIT who worked out the mechanisms by which steel is strengthened and helped establish materials science as a distinct field.

Morris E. Fine

Morris E. Fine (1918–2015) was an American physical metallurgist who co-founded what is described as the first university materials science department at Northwestern and developed NUCu copper-strengthened steels used in Illinois bridges.

Morris Muskat

Morris Muskat (1906–1998) was an American petroleum engineer and physicist who established the mathematical theory of fluid flow through porous media and, with it, the field of petroleum reservoir engineering.

Morrough P. O'Brien

Morrough P. O'Brien, also known as Morrough Parker O'Brien, was an American engineer and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern coastal engineering.

Morrough Parker O'Brien

Morrough Parker O'Brien (1902–1988) was an American engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of modern coastal engineering.

Morteza Mahmoudi

Morteza Mahmoudi, also published as M. Mahmoudi, is a nanomedicine researcher and Associate Professor at Michigan State University, formerly at Harvard, known for protein corona research and co-founding the Academic Parity Movement.

Moshe Vardi

Moshe Vardi is a computer scientist at Rice University known for automated reasoning and model checking, the Feder–Vardi Dichotomy Conjecture, and honors including the Gödel and Knuth prizes.

Mrdjan Jankovic

Mrdjan Jankovic is an American control systems engineer who spent 27 years at Ford developing powertrain and driver-assistance controls, and is a National Academy of Engineering member.

Mubarak Shah (computer vision researcher)

Mubarak Shah is a computer vision researcher and Trustee Chair Professor at the University of Central Florida, founding director of its Center for Research in Computer Vision.

Muhammad Sahimi

Muhammad Sahimi is a chemical engineer who has taught at the University of Southern California since 1984, known for work on percolation theory and transport in porous media.

Mujid S. Kazimi

Mujid S. Kazimi (1947–2015) was a Palestinian-American nuclear engineer and MIT professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for contributions to reactor safety and the nuclear fuel cycle.

Murray B. Sachs

Murray B. Sachs (1940–2018) was an American auditory physiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who showed how the auditory nerve encodes speech and led its biomedical engineering department from 1991 to 2007.

Murray Gershenzon

Murray Gershenzon, known as M. Gershenzon, was a Bell Telephone Laboratories researcher at Murray Hill, New Jersey, who led its 1960s work on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs.

Murray Rosenblatt

Murray Rosenblatt (1926–2019) was an American statistician, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, known for introducing the strong mixing condition in time series analysis and kernel density estimation.

Murty P. Bhavaraju

Murty P. Bhavaraju is an Indian-American electric power reliability engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering for probabilistic reliability evaluation tools for large power systems.

Murty V. V. S. Yalla

Murty V. V. S. Yalla is an electrical engineer who designs digital protection devices for power grids and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.