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Othmane Benafan
Othmane Benafan is a Moroccan-born American materials research engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who has led shape memory alloy development since 2011, including flight-tested folding wings and rock-splitting tools.
Otto H. Schade
Otto H. Schade (1903–1981) was a German-born American television engineer and imaging scientist who spent his career at RCA, known for developing the modulation transfer function concept.
Otto Redlich
Otto Redlich, born in Vienna in 1896, was an Austrian-born American chemist who published the 1949 Redlich–Kwong equation of state and the Redlich–Kister expansion while at Shell and UC Berkeley.
Otto Schmitt
Otto Schmitt (1913–1998) was an American biophysicist and electrical engineer at the University of Minnesota, inventor of the Schmitt trigger circuit and coiner of "biomimetics."
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Ovijit Chaudhuri is a Stanford professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering known for showing that extracellular matrix viscoelasticity, not just stiffness, regulates stem cell spreading and differentiation.
Owen O'Malley
Owen O'Malley is an American software engineer, first committer of Apache Hadoop (2006), architect of MapReduce, security and Hive, founder and technical fellow of Hortonworks (2011-2019), then technical fellow at Cloudera (2019-2020), and founding Vice President of Apache ORC.
P. Hunter Peckham
P. Hunter Peckham is a biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and National Academy of Engineering member, a pioneer of functional electrical stimulation neuroprostheses for tetraplegia.
P. Pandurang Nayak
P. Pandurang Nayak, known as Pandu Nayak, is an Indian-American computer scientist and Chief Scientist for Google Search, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
P. Pradip
P. Pradip, born 1956, is an Indian mineral-processing and particle-technology scientist, Chief Scientist at Tata's TRDDC in Pune and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.
P.V. Kokotović
P.V. Kokotović, also written Petar V. Kokotovic, born in Belgrade in 1934, is a control theorist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, creator of backstepping.
Palle R. Rao
Palle R. Rao, also known as Palle Rama Rao, is an Indian metallurgist who won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1979 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
Paloma Beamer
Paloma Beamer is an exposure scientist and environmental engineer at the University of Arizona, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Pamela J. VandeVord
Pamela J. VandeVord is an American biomedical engineer who studies blast-induced neurotrauma and hemostatic nanotechnology, receiving a Presidential Early Career Award in 2009 at Wayne State University.
Panganamala Ramana Kumar
Panganamala Ramana Kumar is a control and communication-networks engineer, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, whose scheduling policy has run an IBM wafer fab since 2005.
Paolo Addesso
Paolo Addesso is an Italian electronic engineer and associate professor at the University of Salerno who works in statistical signal processing, with applications to remote sensing and gravitational-wave detection.
Paolo Decuzzi
Paolo Decuzzi is an Italian bioengineer who designs drug-carrying nanoparticles and directs the Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.
Paolo Zanardi
Paolo Zanardi is a physicist and professor at the University of Southern California working in quantum information science, known for noiseless quantum codes and holonomic quantum computation.
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir (Victor) Bahl is an American computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for pioneering work in wireless networking and indoor localization, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Parisa Rashidi
Parisa Rashidi is an AI-in-healthcare researcher and full professor at the University of Florida, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Partha P. Mukherjee
Partha P. Mukherjee is a mechanical engineer and electrochemical energy researcher, professor at Purdue University since 2017, known for modeling batteries and fuel cells and named an ASME Fellow in 2025.
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is a Stanford mechanical engineering professor who pioneered direct numerical and large-eddy simulation of turbulence and founded the Center for Turbulence Research in 1987.
Pascal Fua
Pascal Fua is a Swiss computer vision researcher, professor at EPFL, and head of its Computer Vision Laboratory, known for the EPnP algorithm and object tracking.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger, also known as Patrick Paul Gelsinger, is an American technology executive and electrical engineer who was CEO of Intel from 2021 to 2024, previously leading VMware.
Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan, born 1955, is an American computer scientist at Stanford who was chief architect of Pixar's RenderMan, co-founded Tableau, and won the 2019 Turing Award.
Pat Holmes Sterbenz
Pat Holmes Sterbenz (born 1927) is an American mathematician whose 1974 Prentice-Hall book Floating-Point Computation first published Sterbenz's lemma, a key exactness result in floating-point arithmetic.
Patrice Simon
Patrice Simon is a French materials scientist and electrochemist, professor at Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, known for his work on nanoporous carbons for supercapacitors.
Patricia Selinger
Patricia Selinger is an American computer scientist who invented cost-based query optimization while leading IBM's System R team, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Patrick Cousot
Patrick Cousot is a French computer scientist who, with his wife Radhia Cousot, invented abstract interpretation, a theory underlying static analyzers that verify Airbus flight-control software.
Patrick Hsu
Patrick Hsu, also known as Patrick D. Hsu, is an American bioengineer, Arc Institute co-founder, and Stanford professor known for bridge RNAs, the first programmable RNA-guided DNA recombinases.
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Suppes (1922–2014) was an American philosopher of science at Stanford from 1950, known for measurement theory, computer-assisted instruction, and brain-wave research, winning the 1990 National Medal of Science.