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Murugesu Sivapalan

Murugesu Sivapalan, born 1953, is a Sri Lankan-born hydrologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for founding Predictions in Ungauged Basins and co-framing socio-hydrology.

Mustafa Khammash

Mustafa Khammash is a Jordanian-born control engineer and synthetic biologist who is Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology at ETH Zurich in Basel, pioneering cybergenetics.

Mylavarapu Ramamoorty

Mylavarapu Ramamoorty is an Indian electrical engineer in power systems and power electronics, elected a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Myoung Hoon Song

Myoung Hoon Song (송명훈) is a materials scientist who has been a professor at UNIST in South Korea since 2009, known for perovskite LEDs, solar cells, and lasing research.

Myron Tribus

Myron Tribus (1921–2016) was an American engineer known for aircraft ice-protection systems, thermodynamics, and coining the term thermoeconomics in 1962; he led MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering Study and Dartmouth's Thayer School.

N. Jeremy Kasdin

N. Jeremy Kasdin is a Princeton aerospace engineer, emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor, known for shaped-pupil coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging and as Adjutant Scientist on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument.

N.A. Fleck

N.A. Fleck, also known as Norman A. Fleck, is a British mechanical engineer, Professor of Mechanics of Materials at Cambridge, known for strain gradient plasticity theory.

Nadine Aubry

Nadine Aubry is a French-born American mechanical engineer at Tufts University who works in fluid dynamics, turbulence, and microfluidics, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Nae‐Eung Lee

Nae-Eung Lee is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, known for flexible and stretchable sensors and for leading bio-inspired artificial tactile receptors published in Nature Materials in 2025.

Nam-Gyu Park

Nam-Gyu Park (박남규) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University who reported the first long-term stable solid-state perovskite solar cell in 2012.

Nam‐Soon Choi

Nam-Soon Choi (최남순) is a South Korean battery researcher and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for electrolyte additives for lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries, after research at Samsung SDI and UNIST.

Nancy Allbritton

Nancy Allbritton is an American bioengineer and physician, dean of engineering at the University of Washington since 2019 and a pioneer of single-cell analysis and gut-on-a-chip technology.

Nancy Deloye Fitzroy

Nancy Deloye Fitzroy (1927–2024) was an American chemical engineer at General Electric and in 1986 became the first woman to head a major US engineering society as ASME president.

Nancy Lynch

Nancy Lynch is an American computer scientist and NEC Professor at MIT who heads the Theory of Distributed Systems group, best known for the FLP impossibility result and 1988 partial-synchrony work.

Naoya Shibata

Naoya Shibata (柴田 直哉) is a Japanese materials scientist and University of Tokyo professor who developed atomic-resolution differential phase-contrast imaging and a magnetic-field-free electron microscope.

Narain G. Hingorani

Narain G. Hingorani is an electrical engineer who originated FACTS and Custom Power in power electronics and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja is a computer vision researcher and Professor Emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for face detection and 3D vision.

Nassir Navab

Nassir Navab, born 1960, is a computer scientist working in computer vision and medical augmented reality, and a full professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2003.

Natalie Artzi

Natalie Artzi is a biomaterials scientist working on hydrogels, structural nanomedicines, and immune engineering for cancer therapy at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute.

Natalie Stingelin

Natalie Stingelin, who also publishes as Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, is a materials scientist in organic electronics and chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2022.

Nathalie Tufenkji

Nathalie Tufenkji is an environmental engineer and professor of chemical engineering at McGill University in Montreal, known for research on microplastics, urban runoff, and water treatment.

Nathan E. Promisel

Nathan E. Promisel (1908–2005) was an American metallurgical engineer known as the "father of titanium" who served as chief materials scientist of the Naval Air Systems Command from 1940 to 1966.

Nathan Lazarus

Nathan Lazarus is an electrical engineer and University of Delaware associate professor who spent a decade at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Nathan M. Newmark

Nathan M. Newmark (1910–1981) was an American structural engineer at the University of Illinois who created the Newmark method and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.

Nathaniel B. Nichols

Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who created the Nichols chart, co-created the Ziegler–Nichols PID tuning rules, and co-wrote Theory of Servomechanisms.

Neal Amundson

Neal Amundson (1916–2011) was an American chemical engineer who headed the University of Minnesota department from 1949 to 1974, transforming chemical engineering into a mathematically grounded science.

Ned Mohan

Ned Mohan, born Narendra Mohan, was an Indian-born American electrical engineer who taught power electronics at the University of Minnesota for 48 years and wrote widely used textbooks.

Neeraj Kayal

Neeraj Kayal is an Indian theoretical computer scientist who co-discovered the AKS primality test in 2002, winning the Gödel Prize, and studies algebraic complexity theory at Microsoft Research Bengaluru.

Neha Narkhede

Neha Narkhede (born 1985, Pune) is the Indian-American engineer who co-created Apache Kafka at LinkedIn and co-founded Confluent (acquired by IBM in 2026), its former CTO, now CEO of fraud-detection firm Oscilar and a Forbes-listed investor.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as commander of Apollo 11 in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon.