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Neil Dasgupta

Neil P. Dasgupta is a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan known for battery research, including 2025 work enabling lithium-ion EV batteries to charge 500% faster at sub-zero temperatures.

Neil E. Todreas

Neil E. Todreas is an emeritus MIT professor of nuclear engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, known for reactor thermal hydraulics and the textbook Nuclear Systems.

Neil P. King

Neil P. King is a biochemist and protein designer, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, whose computationally designed nanoparticle vaccine was approved in 2022 as SKYCovione.

Neil Siegel

Neil Gilbert Siegel is an American systems engineer who led the U.S. Army's first digital battlefield system and won the 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Neil Sloane

Neil Sloane, born in 1939, is a Welsh-born mathematician and coding theorist best known as the creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).

Nelson Martins

Nelson Martins is a Brazilian electric power systems engineer who spent his 41-year career at CEPEL in Rio de Janeiro and created the stability-analysis software PacDyn.

Nenad Miljkovic

Nenad Miljkovic is a mechanical engineer who heads Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on phase-change heat transfer and nanostructured surfaces.

Neri Merhav

Neri Merhav (נרי מרחב) is an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor known for universal prediction, mismatched decoding, and links between information theory and statistical physics.

Nesbitt Hagood

Nesbitt W. Hagood IV is an American aeronautical engineer and former MIT professor who founded the Active Materials and Structures Laboratory and later the display company Pixtronix, acquired by Qualcomm.

Neville G. W. Cook

Neville G. W. Cook (1938–1998) was a South African-born rock mechanics engineer who held a chair at UC Berkeley and pioneered research on rockbursts and mine safety.

Niall Mac Dowell

Niall Mac Dowell is Professor of Future Energy Systems at Imperial College London, where he models carbon capture, storage, and removal, and advised the UK government on net zero.

Nianqiang Wu

Nianqiang Wu, known as Nick Wu, is a materials scientist working on photocatalysis, plasmonics, biosensors, and fuel cells; he joined UMass Amherst in 2020 after fifteen years at West Virginia University.

Nicholas A. Melosh

Nicholas A. Melosh is a materials scientist and professor at Stanford University who directs the Nanofabrication Center and is known for diamondoid electron-emission research and nanostraws that deliver molecules into cells.

Nicholas Ayache

Nicholas Ayache, born 1958 in Paris, is a French computer scientist and Research Director at Inria Sophia Antipolis, known for medical image analysis and co-founding the MICCAI conference.

Nicholas Carlini

Nicholas Carlini is an American computer security researcher at Anthropic, known for adversarial attacks on machine learning models and extracting training data from large language models.

Nicholas Glavin

Nicholas Glavin is a materials scientist and Senior Materials Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, known for 2D materials research and the 2025 PECASE award.

Nicholas J. Garber

Nicholas J. Garber is a traffic engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored the textbook Traffic & Highway Engineering and held professorships at Virginia and Central Florida.

Nicholas J. Grant

Nicholas J. Grant (1915–2004) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor known for high-temperature alloys and rapid solidification processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Nicholas Kotov

Nicholas A. Kotov is an American materials scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for biomimetic nanostructures, self-assembled nanocomposites, and chiral nanomaterials.

Nicholas L. Abbott

Nicholas L. Abbott is an American chemical engineer, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University since 2018, known for liquid-crystal sensors and self-assembly directed by topological defects.

Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte is an American computer scientist who founded MIT's Architecture Machine Group, co-founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985, and wrote the 1995 bestseller Being Digital.

Nicholas Rott

Nicholas Rott, born Miklós Rott in Budapest in 1917, was a Hungarian-born aerodynamicist who developed thermoacoustics, taught at ETH Zurich, Cornell, and UCLA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.

Nicholas Turner (chemist)

Nicholas J. Turner (born 1960) is a British chemist at the University of Manchester known for engineering enzymes, above all imine reductases, as biocatalysts for making chiral amines.

Nick Donofrio

Nick Donofrio is an American electrical engineer who spent 44 years at IBM, retiring in 2008 as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, and now chairs Quantexa.

Nick Feamster

Nick Feamster, also known as Nicholas Feamster, is an American computer scientist and Neubauer Professor at the University of Chicago who studies computer networking and Internet security.

Nick Frosst

Nick Frosst, also known as Nicholas Frosst, is a Canadian computer scientist who co-founded the AI company Cohere in 2019 and is lead vocalist of the band Good Kid.

Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak Jr. (1928–2022) was an American electronics engineer who demonstrated the first practical visible LED at General Electric in 1962, and later taught for fifty years at the University of Illinois.

Nick McKeown

Nick McKeown is a Stanford computer networks researcher, co-inventor of software-defined networking and creator of the iSLIP scheduling algorithm, who won the 2025 Marconi Prize.

Nick Newman (naval architect)

Nick Newman, born 1935, is an American naval architect and marine hydrodynamicist, MIT professor emeritus known for the textbook Marine Hydrodynamics and the wave-load code WAMIT.

Nick Parziale

Nick Parziale, or Nicholaus Parziale, is an American experimental fluid dynamicist and professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, known for krypton tagging velocimetry in supersonic and hypersonic flows.