Engineers and computer scientists

Noah A. Smith

Noah A. Smith is an American NLP researcher, a University of Washington professor and AI2 senior director who leads the OLMo open language model effort.

Noah J. Cowan

Noah J. Cowan is an American mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies locomotion control in animals and robots, founding the LIMBS Laboratory and winning a 2010 PECASE award.

Noah Snavely

Noah Snavely is a computer scientist, professor at Cornell Tech, and Google DeepMind research scientist known for turning ordinary online photos into 3D models, work behind Microsoft Photosynth.

Noam Brown

Noam Brown is an AI research scientist at OpenAI who led Libratus and Pluribus, the first superhuman poker AIs, and co-developed CICERO, the first human-level Diplomacy AI.

Noam Nisan

Noam Nisan is an Israeli computer scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, credited with founding algorithmic mechanism design and honored with the Gödel and Knuth Prizes.

Noboru Kikuchi

Noboru Kikuchi is a Japanese mechanical engineer, University of Michigan professor emeritus and former president of Toyota Central R&D Labs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Nobukazu Teranishi

Nobukazu Teranishi (寺西信一) is a Japanese engineer who invented the pinned photodiode at NEC in 1980, used in almost all image sensors, earning the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize.

Nobuo Yoneda

Nobuo Yoneda (米田信夫) was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist, professor at the University of Tokyo, whose Yoneda lemma is a central result of category theory.

Nobuyuki Imoto

Nobuyuki Imoto (井元信之) is a Japanese quantum information and quantum optics scientist, a Senior Professor at The University of Tokyo and Professor Emeritus of Osaka University.

Noel C. Giebink

Noel C. Giebink, known as Chris Giebink, is an American electrical engineer who works on photovoltaics and organic optoelectronics; since 2023 he has been a professor at the University of Michigan.

Noel Thomas Clemens

Noel Thomas Clemens is an aerospace engineer at UT Austin elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for laser-based measurements of high-speed flows.

Sep 20, 2026

Noh Yong-young (노용영, also written Yong-Young Noh) is a South Korean semiconductor researcher and Namgo Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2019, known for p-type oxide and perovskite thin-film transistors.

Oct 15, 2026

Nomex honeycomb

Nomex honeycomb is a lightweight structural core made from DuPont's Nomex aramid paper dipped in phenolic resin, formed into hexagonal cells for aircraft sandwich panels.

Norman A. Abrahamson

Norman A. Abrahamson is an American engineering seismologist and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley known for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and the Next Generation Attenuation ground motion models.

Norman A. Gjostein

Norman A. Gjostein (1931–2006) was an American metallurgical engineer at Ford Motor Company, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for surface science research.

Norman Brooks (environmental engineer)

Norman Herrick Brooks, born in 1928, is an American environmental engineer and hydraulics researcher at Caltech known for pollutant transport studies and wastewater outfall design.

Norman N. Li

Norman N. Li (黎念之) is a Chinese-American chemical engineer who invented liquid membrane technology at Exxon, held about 44 US patents, and received the Perkin Medal in 2000.

Norman R. Augustine

Norman R. Augustine is an American aerospace executive who led Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin and chaired major U.S. space program reviews in 1990 and 2009.

Norman R. Morrow

Norman R. Morrow is a petroleum engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for research on wettability and oil recovery.

Norman R. Scott

Norman R. Scott, or Norman Roy Scott, is an American agricultural and biological engineer, a Cornell professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Norman Ralph Augustine (born 1935) is an American aerospace engineer and executive who led Martin Marietta and then Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor.

Sep 20, 2026

Nripan Mathews

Nripan Mathews is a Singapore-based materials scientist and associate professor at Nanyang Technological University known for perovskite solar cells, memristive neuromorphic devices, and solar-panel silicon recycling.

Nuno Vasconcelos

Nuno Vasconcelos is a Portuguese computer vision researcher, professor at UC San Diego since 2003, and head of the Statistical Visual Computing Laboratory, known for Cascade R-CNN.

Octave Levenspiel

Octave Levenspiel is a chemical engineer and Oregon State University professor known as the founder of chemical reaction engineering and author of its standard 1962 textbook.

Odd Magnus Faltinsen

Odd Magnus Faltinsen, born 1944 in Stavanger, Norway, is a Norwegian marine hydrodynamicist and Professor Emeritus at NTNU, known for wave loads, slamming, and sloshing theories.

Oded Goldreich

Oded Goldreich is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for zero-knowledge proofs and secure computation, winner of the 2021 Israel Prize.

Oded Regev (computer scientist)

Oded Regev is a theoretical computer scientist and professor at New York University's Courant Institute, known for introducing the Learning with Errors problem in 2005.

Odest C. Jenkins

Odest C. Jenkins, also known as Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, is an American computer scientist in robot learning and human-robot interaction, a professor at the University of Michigan since 2015.

Olaf A. Hougen

Olaf A. Hougen (1893–1986) was an American chemical engineer and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose Langmuir–Hinshelwood–Hougen–Watson method remains standard for deriving catalytic rate expressions.