Engineers and computer scientists

Peng Chen (materials scientist)

Peng Chen (陈鹏) is a full professor of bioengineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for nanomaterial biosensors, carbon nanotube devices detecting cellular bioelectricity, and transdermal theranostics.

Peng Shi

Peng Shi is an Australian control and systems engineer, a Distinguished Professor at the University of Adelaide known for robust control of Markovian jump, switched, and fuzzy systems.

Sep 20, 2026

Peng Yin

Peng Yin (尹鹏) is a scientist who engineers DNA and RNA as programmable materials, leading a Harvard Medical School and Wyss Institute lab known for DNA bricks and DNA-PAINT imaging.

Per F. Peterson

Per F. Peterson is an American nuclear engineer at UC Berkeley and co-founder of Kairos Power, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Per K. Enge

Per K. Enge (Per Kristian Enge, 1953–2018) was a Norwegian-born electrical engineer and Stanford professor who directed the Stanford GPS Lab and led the design of WAAS and maritime DGPS.

Per V. Bruel

Per V. Bruel, also known as Per Vilhelm Brüel, was a Danish acoustics engineer who co-founded the instrumentation company Brüel & Kjær in 1942 with Viggo Kjær.

Per Vilhelm Brüel

Per Vilhelm Brüel (1915–2015) was a Danish acoustics engineer who co-founded the instrumentation company Brüel & Kjær in 1942 and made sound and vibration measurement routine in industry.

Percy Liang

Percy Shuo Liang is an American computer scientist and Stanford professor working on machine learning and natural language processing, known for the CRFM and the HELM benchmark.

Perry McCarty

Perry Lee McCarty (1931–2023) was an American environmental engineer and longtime Stanford professor, a founder of environmental engineering who pioneered environmental biotechnology and won the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize.

Petar V. Kokotovic

Petar V. Kokotovic is a control theorist, a National Academy of Engineering member and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, known for singular perturbation methods and backstepping.

Peter B. Teets

Peter B. Teets (1942–2020) was an American aerospace executive who led Lockheed Martin and served as Under Secretary of the Air Force and NRO director.

Peter Beardmore

Peter Beardmore is a materials scientist who trained in England, directed the Ford Research Laboratory until 2000, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.

Peter C. Schultz

Peter C. Schultz is an American glass chemist and materials scientist who co-invented the first low-loss optical fiber at Corning in 1970, the physical basis of global telecommunications, and holds 26 U.S. patents.

Peter C. Searson

Peter C. Searson is an American materials scientist and engineer, the Reynolds Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for tissue-engineered models of the blood-brain barrier.

Peter Carl Goldmark

Peter Carl Goldmark (1906–1977) was a Hungarian-born American engineer who led CBS Laboratories, invented the 33⅓ rpm LP record introduced in 1948, and developed the first commercial color-television system.

Peter Chen (Taiwanese-American computer scientist)

Peter Pin-Shan Chen (陈品山) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist who formalized and popularized the entity–relationship model in his 1976 paper, one of the most cited works in computer science.

Peter Cooper Hewitt

Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861–1921) was an American electrical engineer and grandson of industrialist Peter Cooper who invented the first commercially successful mercury-vapor lamp and the mercury-arc rectifier.

Peter Fajfar

Peter Fajfar, born 1943 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian earthquake engineer known for the N2 method, a seismic analysis procedure adopted in Eurocode 8 in 2002.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter Fratzl

Peter Fratzl, born 1958 in Vienna, is an Austrian materials scientist directing biomaterials research at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter G. Bruce

Peter G. Bruce is a British materials chemist, Wolfson Professor at Oxford, founder of the Faraday Institution, and pioneer of the rechargeable lithium-air battery, knighted in 2022.

Peter G. Wilhelm

Peter G. Wilhelm (1935–2025) was an American space systems engineer who spent 55 years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, working on roughly 100 satellites including GRAB.

Peter Gumbsch

Peter Gumbsch is a German materials scientist known for multiscale modeling of deformation and fracture and for mechanical metamaterials; he won the Leibniz Prize in 2007.

Peter Gutmann (computer scientist)

Peter Gutmann is a New Zealand computer security researcher at the University of Auckland, known for the 35-pass Gutmann wipe method and the cryptlib security toolkit.

Peter H. L. Notten

Peter H. L. Notten (born 1952) is a Dutch materials electrochemist known for rechargeable NiMH and lithium-ion battery research at Philips Research and Eindhoven University of Technology.

Peter Haasen

Peter Haasen was a German physicist and professor of metal physics. He was known for his work on dislocation mechanics and his textbook, Physical Metallurgy.

Peter Hirsch (materials scientist)

Peter Hirsch, full name Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch, was a British materials scientist who in 1956 first observed dislocations moving in metals by electron microscopy, and led Oxford's metallurgy department.

Peter J. Pupalaikis

Peter J. Pupalaikis is an American electrical engineer known for digital signal processing in high-bandwidth real-time oscilloscopes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Peter J. Vikesland

Peter J. Vikesland is an environmental engineer and the inaugural Pryor Professor of Engineering at Virginia Tech, known for research on nanomaterials and sensors for drinking water treatment.

Peter J. Winzer

Peter J. Winzer is an optical communications researcher elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for work on fiber capacity limits, coherent detection, and constellation shaping.