Engineers and computer scientists

Oleg D. Sherby

Oleg D. Sherby (1925–2015) was an American materials scientist at Stanford University whose work linked high-temperature creep to self-diffusion, opened the study of superplasticity, and created ultrahigh carbon steels.

Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang is a soft matter and nanomaterials researcher known for DNA-guided assembly of nanoparticles into designed 3D crystals, leading a Brookhaven group and teaching at Columbia since 2016.

Oleg Komogortsev

Oleg Komogortsev is a computer scientist at Texas State University in San Marcos who studies eye-movement biometrics, received a PECASE award, and leads the OK Lab.

Oleg Losev

Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (1903–1942) was a self-taught Russian radio engineer who made the first detailed study of electroluminescence in crystal diodes and invented the crystadyne amplifier.

Olgierd Zienkiewicz

Olgierd (Olek) Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British civil engineer, a leading developer of the finite element method, and professor at Swansea University from 1961 to 1988.

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley

Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (1887–1959) was an American telecommunications engineer who joined Bell System research in 1914 and served as president of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1940 to 1950.

Oliver G. Schmidt

Oliver G. Schmidt, born 1971 in Kiel, is a German physicist and nanotechnologist working on functional nanostructures, micromotors, and microrobotics, and winner of the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Oliver Gutfleisch

Oliver Gutfleisch is a German materials scientist, professor of Functional Materials at TU Darmstadt since 2012, known for magnetic cooling research, permanent magnets, and the recycling of rare earths.

Oliver Steinbock

Oliver Steinbock is a German chemist who grew up in Hameln and holds the Cottrell Family Professorship of Chemistry at Florida State University, known for research on pattern formation in excitable media and chemical gardens.

Olivier Delaire

Olivier Delaire is a materials scientist and associate professor at Duke University, formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for neutron-scattering studies of phonons in energy materials.

Olivier Faugeras

Olivier Faugeras is a French computer scientist known for computer vision and mathematical neuroscience, a Research Director Emeritus at Inria who won the 2014 Okawa Prize.

Olle Inganäs

Olle Inganäs is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus of biomolecular and organic electronics at Linköping University, known for research on conjugated polymers, organic solar cells, and biopolymer energy storage.

Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Oluwasanmi (Sanmi) Koyejo is a computer scientist and neuroscientist who is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Omar F. Mohammed

Omar F. Mohammed is a physical chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who leads ultrafast electron imaging research on solar cells and X-ray scintillators.

Omer Reingold

Omer Reingold is a theoretical computer scientist who holds the Rajeev Motwani Professorship at Stanford University, known for the zig-zag graph product and his 2005 proof that SL equals L.

Omid Farokhzad

Omid Farokhzad is a physician-scientist in nanomedicine who developed targeted nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery, founded the Center for Nanomedicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and leads Seer, Inc.

Ongun Alsaç

Ongun Alsaç is a power systems engineer known as co-creator of the fast decoupled load flow and security-constrained optimal power flow, methods used commercially by electricity system operators worldwide.

Onome Scott-Emuakpor

Onome Scott-Emuakpor is an American aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base known for an energy-based fatigue-life prediction method for turbine engine materials and a 2013 PECASE award.

Oriol Vinyals

Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher known for sequence-to-sequence learning and leading AlphaStar, and a former Google DeepMind VP who co-founded Discovery Loop in 2026.

Orlando J. Rojas

Orlando J. Rojas is a materials scientist working on nanocellulose and bio-based materials, Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of British Columbia and winner of the Anselme Payen Award.

Orlin D. Velev

Orlin D. Velev is a chemical engineer and colloid scientist, the Culberson Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University since 2001, known for directed colloidal assembly and droplet microfluidics.

Orville Wright

Orville Wright (1871–1948) was an American aviation pioneer who, with his older brother Wilbur, made the first controlled, powered, sustained flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

Osama Nayfeh

Osama M. Nayfeh, also published as Sam Nayfeh, is an American electrical engineer and Senior Engineer/Scientist at NIWC Pacific in San Diego, who received a 2014 PECASE award.

Osamu Mishima

Osamu Mishima (三島修) is a Japanese materials scientist, born in Hiroshima in 1951, whose high-pressure ice experiments at NIMS established polyamorphism and the two amorphous forms of water.

Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds was an Anglo-Irish engineer and physicist who held the Chair of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, from 1868 to 1905 and established the Reynolds number.

Oscar D. Dubon Jr.

Oscar D. Dubon Jr. is an American materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who won the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for semiconductor research.

Osman M. Bakr

Osman M. Bakr is a Saudi materials scientist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for perovskite single crystals for solar cells and radiation detection.

Osvaldo A. Bascur

Osvaldo A. Bascur is a Chilean-born mineral-processing engineer who created the Dynafloat and Dynamill simulation models and, at OSIsoft, a sensor-to-enterprise blueprint for mining operations.

Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.

Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard, Jr. (1916–2004) was an American radio physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for over-the-horizon radar, meteor-burst communication, and ionospheric sounding.