Engineers and computer scientists

Qing Zhang

Qing Zhang (张青) is a Chinese nanophotonics and materials scientist, a tenured associate professor at Peking University since 2022, known for halide perovskite nanolasers and room-temperature exciton polaritons.

Qing-Huo Liu

Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.

Qing-Long Han

Qing-Long Han is an Australian control engineer who has been Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne since 2016, known for time-delay and networked control systems.

Qinghuang Lin (林庆煌)

Qinghuang Lin (林庆煌) is a materials engineer working on photoresists, lithography, and semiconductor nanofabrication, elected a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Sep 20, 2026

Qingyu Yan

Qingyu Yan (颜清宇), also known as Alex Yan, is a professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who researches thermoelectric materials, batteries, and electrocatalysis, and won the Nanyang Research Award in 2024.

Qiquan Qiao

Qiquan Qiao, known professionally as Quinn Qiao, is a professor and chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University who researches solar cells and solid-state batteries.

Quinn Burlingame

Quinn C. Burlingame is a solar-cell researcher at Princeton University who studies the stability of organic and perovskite photovoltaics, and co-led a 2019 Nature study showing packaged organic solar cells can be intrinsically stable.

Qun Liu

Qun Liu (刘群) is a Chinese computer scientist in natural language processing and machine translation, Huawei's chief scientist of speech and language computing since 2018 and a 2021 ACL Fellow.

R. Bruce Thompson

R. Bruce Thompson (1941–2011) was an Iowa State University professor and National Academy of Engineering member who pioneered quantitative ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation, including the Thompson-Gray Measurement Model.

R. Byron Pipes

R. Byron Pipes is an American polymer and composites researcher at Purdue University, known for the 1970 Pipes–Pagano analysis and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

R. Joseph Kline

R. Joseph Kline is a materials scientist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who developed X-ray metrology methods for 3D nanostructures in the semiconductor industry and received a 2012 PECASE award.

R. Noel Longuemare

R. Noel Longuemare is an American electrical engineer who spent 41 years developing radar and avionics systems at Westinghouse, then served in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton.

R. Peter King

R. Peter King (1938–2006) was a South African-born metallurgical engineer and University of Utah professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for mineral processing simulation.

R. Rhodes Trussell

R. Rhodes Trussell is an American civil and environmental engineer who founded Trussell Technologies, chaired the 2012 NRC Water Reuse study, and won the 2013 Clarke Prize.

R.M.K. Sinha

R.M.K. Sinha, born Rai Mahesh Kumar Sinha in 1945, is an Indian computer scientist who developed the ANGLABHARTI English-to-Indian-languages machine translation system at IIT Kanpur.

Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

Raadhakrishnan Poovendran is an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Washington who founded its Network Security Lab and received a 2005 PECASE award.

Rachel Maines

Rachel P. Maines (born 1950) is an American historian of technology whose 1999 book The Technology of Orgasm originated the Victorian vibrator story, a claim a 2018 audit found unsupported.

Radek Zbořil

Radek Zbořil, born in 1973, is a Czech physical chemist and professor at Palacký University Olomouc, known as a pioneer of single-atom engineering and for work on nanomaterials.

Radhika Nagpal

Radhika Nagpal is a computer scientist who works on self-organizing robot collectives, created the Kilobot thousand-robot swarm, and has been a professor of engineering at Princeton University since 2022.

Radia Perlman

Radia Perlman is an American network engineer and computer scientist who designed the Spanning Tree Protocol, adopted as IEEE 802.1D in 1990, and the DECnet routing algorithm standardized as IS-IS.

Sep 20, 2026

Raffaele Mezzenga

Raffaele Mezzenga is a materials scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich who turns food proteins into amyloid fibrils for water purification and alcohol-detoxifying hydrogels.

Raffaello D'Andrea

Raffaello D'Andrea is an engineer, artist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva Systems, sold to Amazon for $775 million, and founded the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.

Rafic Helou

Rafic Helou, also published as Rafic G. El-Helou, is an American structural engineer at the Federal Highway Administration known for ultra-high performance concrete bridge design.

Rainer Waser

Rainer Waser (born 1955 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German materials scientist at RWTH Aachen known for work on redox-based resistive switching and memristive devices.

Raj N Singh

Raj N Singh is an American materials scientist at Oklahoma State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for pioneering ceramic matrix composites used in jet engines.

Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy (Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy), born 1937 in India, is an Indian-American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who shared the 1994 Turing Award for pioneering large-scale artificial intelligence systems.

Rajeev Alur

Rajeev Alur is an American computer scientist, co-inventor of timed automata, who is the Zisman Family Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and won the 2024 Knuth Prize.

Rajesh P.N. Rao

Rajesh P.N. Rao is a computational neuroscientist and computer scientist at the University of Washington, known for the Rao–Ballard predictive coding model and the first human brain-to-brain interface.

Rajiv Laroia

Rajiv Laroia is a wireless communications engineer who founded Flarion Technologies, whose OFDMA-based all-IP mobile broadband system became a foundation for 4G LTE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.