4,646 articles
Nick Schrock
Nick Schrock is an American software engineer, co-creator of GraphQL at Facebook, and founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, whose open-source Python data orchestration platform Dagster raised $49M.
Nick Szabo
Nick Szabo is an American computer scientist and cryptographer who coined the term smart contract in 1994 and designed Bit Gold, a precursor to Bitcoin.
Nickolas J. Themelis
Nickolas J. Themelis, born 1933, is an American chemical metallurgist, Columbia University professor, and National Academy of Engineering member known for the Noranda copper smelting process and waste-to-energy research.
Nicola Gasparini
Nicola Gasparini is an Associate Professor in Electronic Materials at Imperial College London who leads the Gaspa Group and won the 2024 RSC Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize.
Nicolas J. Cerf
Nicolas J. Cerf is a Belgian quantum information scientist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, known for negative conditional entropies and Gaussian quantum cloning.
Nicolas Voelcker
Nicolas H. Voelcker is a bionanotechnologist who works on porous silicon nanostructures for biosensors and drug delivery, and is Scientific Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication.
Nicos Christofides
Nicos Christofides (1942–2019) was a Cypriot-born computer scientist and Professor of Operational Research at Imperial College London, known for his 1976 approximation algorithm for the traveling salesman problem.
Nicu Sebe
Nicu Sebe (Niculae Sebe) is a computer scientist in computer vision and machine learning, a full professor at the University of Trento and head of AI at Humans.ai.
Niels Hansen (materials scientist)
Niels Erik Ottesen Hansen (1933–2021) was a Danish materials scientist at Risø National Laboratory known for work on strengthening polycrystalline metals and dislocation mechanisms of plastic flow.
Nigel Peter Brandon
Nigel Peter Brandon is a British electrochemical engineer, Professor and Dean of Engineering at Imperial College London, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for solid oxide fuel cells.
Nikhil Koratkar
Nikhil Koratkar is an Indian-born American materials scientist and mechanical engineer who holds a chaired professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for nanomaterials research and lithium battery work.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus "Bucky" Wirth (1934–2024) was a Swiss computer scientist who designed Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, won the 1984 Turing Award, and taught at ETH Zurich from 1968 to 1999.
Nikolaos A. Peppas
Nikolaos A. Peppas is a Greek-American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for hydrogels, controlled drug delivery, and the Peppas equation.
Nikolaus A. Adams
Nikolaus A. Adams (born 1963) is a German mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist, professor and chair of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics at the Technical University of Munich since 2004.
Nikolay Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский) (scientist)
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, 1847–1921) was a Russian mathematician and engineer called the father of Russian aviation; his 1906 lift theorem underlies wing theory.
Nina Balke
Nina Balke is a materials scientist working on nanoscale electrochemistry with atomic force microscopy; after eleven years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she joined NC State in 2021.
Ning Gu
Ning Gu (顾宁, Gu Ning, born 1964) is a Chinese biomedical nanomaterials scientist and Nanjing University professor, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021, known for nanozymes.
Ning Li
Ning Li (李宁) is a materials scientist who works on organic photovoltaics, perovskite, and tandem solar cells, leading a research group at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou.
Nini Pryds
Nini Pryds is a Danish materials scientist who heads the Functional Oxide Materials section at the Technical University of Denmark, studying oxide interfaces and elastocaloric heat pumps.
Nir Shavit
Nir Shavit is an Israeli computer scientist, professor at MIT and Tel Aviv University, known for software transactional memory and winning the 2004 Gödel Prize.
Nir Tessler
Nir Tessler is a professor of electrical engineering at the Technion in Israel who works on organic semiconductor devices and halide perovskite solar cells, including a 1996 Nature polymer lasing paper.
Niren Murthy
Niren Murthy is an American bioengineer and professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley known for biodegradable polymers and lipid nanoparticles that deliver drugs and gene-editing machinery into cells.
Nissim Calderon
Nissim Calderon (1933–2020) was an American polymer scientist and Goodyear research executive who discovered the olefin metathesis reaction in 1964 and was named the 2020 Charles Goodyear Medalist.
Nitash Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara is a chemical engineer who has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 2000 and studies block copolymer electrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries; he co-founded the battery companies Seeo and Blue Current.
Nithya Ramanathan
Nithya Ramanathan is a computer scientist who co-founded Nexleaf Analytics in 2009, a nonprofit whose ColdTrace temperature sensors protect vaccine supplies in India, Kenya, and other countries.
Nitin P. Padture
Nitin P. Padture is an American materials scientist and engineer, Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University, known for perovskite solar cells and gas-turbine ceramic coatings.
Nitin Saxena
Nitin Saxena, born 1981 in Prayagraj, India, is an Indian computer scientist who co-created the AKS primality test as an IIT Kanpur undergraduate, winning the 2006 Gödel Prize.
Nitish Padmanaban
Nitish Padmanaban is a computational imaging and near-eye display researcher at Sesame working on eye tracking, who co-founded Zinn Labs and earned a Stanford PhD in 2020.
Nitish Srivastava
Nitish Srivastava is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher who co-invented dropout, the neural network regularization technique, as lead author of the 2014 JMLR paper.
Noa Lincoln
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln is an American agroecologist and associate professor of Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, studying traditional Hawaiian agriculture.