Engineers and computer scientists

Peter K. H. Ho

Peter K. H. Ho is a Singaporean physicist and professor at the National University of Singapore who researches organic semiconductor devices, including LEDs and solar cells.

Peter K. Kitanidis, also known as Peter Kitanidis, is an environmental engineer and Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering known for the geostatistical approach to groundwater inverse problems.

Peter K. Liaw

Peter K. Liaw, also published as Peter Liaw, is a materials scientist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who studies the fatigue and fracture of high-entropy alloys and is a Fellow of ASM, MRS, and TMS.

Peter Lee (materials scientist)

Peter Lee, also known as Peter D. Lee, is a professor of materials science at University College London known for synchrotron X-ray imaging of materials and intact human organs.

Peter Louis Andresen

Peter Louis Andresen is an American materials scientist known for predicting and preventing stress corrosion cracking in nuclear reactors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

Peter Meer

Peter Meer is an electrical engineer and computer vision researcher, a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University from 1991 to 2018, known for the mean shift algorithm and kernel-based object tracking.

Peter Morgan (Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher)

Peter Morgan, born 1943, is a Zimbabwean water and sanitation researcher known for the Blair toilet, the Bush Pump, and ecological sanitation, winning the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter Müller‐Buschbaum

Peter Müller-Buschbaum (born 1966) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Functional Materials at the Technical University of Munich, studying solar cells and batteries.

Peter Murray (metallurgist)

Peter Murray (1920–2009) was a British-born nuclear metallurgist who worked at Harwell and Westinghouse and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Peter N. Belhumeur

Peter N. Belhumeur is an American computer vision scientist, professor of computer science at Columbia University, known for face recognition research and the Leafsnap plant-identification app.

Peter Naur

Peter Naur (1928–2016) was a Danish computer scientist who edited the 1960 Algol 60 report, helped establish Backus-Naur Form, coined "datalogy", and won the 2005 Turing Award.

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an American computer scientist, Director of Research at Google since 2005 and co-author with Stuart Russell of the leading AI textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

Peter O'Hearn

Peter O'Hearn is a computer scientist whose separation logic enabled tractable reasoning about program memory, and whose Infer analyzer found hundreds of thousands of bugs at Facebook.

Peter Sheridan Dodds

Peter Sheridan Dodds is a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont who works on network science and contagion, and is best known for the Hedonometer, a Twitter-based instrument measuring happiness.

Peter Shor

Peter Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, known for Shor's 1994 quantum factoring algorithm and for quantum error correction.

Peter Staudhammer

Peter Staudhammer (1934–2008) was an American aerospace engineer who spent four decades at TRW, retiring in 2002 as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer overseeing 17,000 engineers.

Peter Stoica

Peter Stoica, also known as Petre Stoica, is a signal processing researcher and Professor of Systems Modeling at Uppsala University, known for system identification, spectral analysis, and array processing.

Peter Sutter

Peter Sutter is a materials scientist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln known for epitaxial graphene growth on metals and twisted van der Waals nanowires.

Peter Swerling

Peter Swerling (1929–2000) was an American mathematician and radar theoretician whose statistical models of fluctuating radar targets, the Swerling Cases I–IV, remain standard tools in radar system design.

Peter Szolovits

Peter Szolovits is an American computer scientist and MIT professor who heads the Clinical Decision-Making Group in CSAIL, applying artificial intelligence to medical decision making since 1974.

Peter V. Coveney

Peter V. Coveney, also known as Peter Coveney, is a computational scientist who directs the Centre for Computational Science at University College London and works on multiscale modeling and high-performance computing.

Peter W. Voorhees

Peter W. Voorhees is a materials scientist at Northwestern University known for research on Ostwald ripening, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

Peter Wasserscheid

Peter Wasserscheid, born 1970 in Würzburg, is a German chemist known for ionic liquids in catalysis and liquid organic hydrogen carriers, holding the Chemical Reaction Engineering chair at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2003.

Peter Wilderer

Peter Wilderer is a German civil engineer known for biofilm-based wastewater treatment and the first Stockholm Water Prize awarded to a German academic, in 2003.

Peter Zandstra

Peter W. Zandstra is a Canadian bioengineer known for stem cell bioengineering, a professor at the University of British Columbia and its Vice-President, Research and Innovation since 2026.

Peters Max Stone

Peters Max Stone (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969 and dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Petre Stoica

Petre Stoica is a signal processing researcher and emeritus professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, known for system identification, spectral analysis, wireless communications, and the SPICE sparse estimation method.

Petro Maksymovych

Petro Maksymovych, who publishes as Peter Maksymovych, is a Ukrainian-born materials scientist known for ferroelectric nanoscience at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Clemson University professor since 2024.

Sep 20, 2026

Phaedon Avouris

Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-trained chemical physicist at IBM who pioneered carbon nanotube logic circuits and gigahertz graphene transistors, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.