Engineers and computer scientists

Ravindran Kannan

Ravindran Kannan is a theoretical computer scientist known for algorithms, the geometry of numbers, and machine learning foundations, winner of the 1991 Fulkerson Prize and 2011 Knuth Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Ray H. Baughman

Ray H. Baughman (1943–2025) was an American materials scientist who directed the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas and pioneered carbon nanotube yarns and artificial muscles.

Ray H. Boundy

Ray H. Boundy (1903–1992) was an American chemical engineer who spent forty-two years at Dow Chemical, rising to vice-president and first full-time director of research.

Ray R. Irani

Ray R. Irani is a Lebanese-born American physical chemist, born in Beirut, who served as chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum from 1990 to 2011.

Ray W. Clough

Ray W. Clough (1920–2016) was an American structural and earthquake engineer at UC Berkeley, co-developer of the finite element method and co-author of Dynamics of Structures.

Raymond C. Loehr

Raymond C. Loehr (1931–2021) was an American environmental engineer, an expert on industrial and hazardous waste treatment who held a chaired professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

Raymond D. Kell

Raymond D. Kell (Ray D. Kell) directed television camera research at RCA from 1930, helped create the American 525-line TV standard, and gave his name to the Kell factor.

Raymond D. Mindlin

Raymond D. Mindlin (1906–1987) was an American applied mechanician at Columbia University, known for Mindlin plate theory, the Mindlin problem, and generalized continuum theories of elasticity.

Raymond F. Decker

Raymond F. Decker is an American metallurgist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980, known as co-inventor of maraging steels and co-founder of Thixomat.

Raymond J. Krizek

Raymond J. Krizek is an American geotechnical engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering who taught civil engineering at Northwestern University for 59 years, retiring in 2022.

Raymond L. Bisplinghoff (1917–1985) was an American aeronautical engineer known for work on aeroelasticity and aircraft structural dynamics, the textbook Aeroelasticity (1955), and leadership at MIT and NASA.

Raymond Viskanta

Raymond Viskanta (1931–2021) was a Lithuanian-born American mechanical engineer and Purdue professor known for pioneering research on radiative heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Raymond W. Ketchledge (1919–1987) was an American electronics engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who led development of the first electronic telephone switching systems placed in public service in the United States.

Raymond Wilson (optical engineer)

Raymond Wilson (1928–2018) was an engineer at the European Southern Observatory who invented active optics, enabling thin lightweight telescope mirrors, and shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics.

Rebecca Schulman

Rebecca Schulman is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University whose lab programs DNA circuits and self-assembling nanostructures to compute and actuate soft materials.

Red Whittaker

Red Whittaker is an American roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University known as the father of field robotics and winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

Reg Davies

Reg Davies (1936–2022) was a British-born chemical engineer and particle scientist who spent 23 years at DuPont, retiring as a DuPont Fellow leading its Particle Science and Technology group.

Regina Barzilay

Regina Barzilay is a computer scientist and MIT professor who leads AI in medicine at the Jameel Clinic, known for the Mirai and Sybil cancer risk models.

Reginald Cooper

Reginald Cooper is an American electronics engineer in the Sensors Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, a 2017 PECASE recipient known for radio-frequency electronic warfare research and mentoring.

Rein Ulijn

Rein V. Ulijn is a Dutch-born biomaterials scientist who directs the Nanoscience Initiative at CUNY's Advanced Science Research Center, known for enzyme-responsive peptide hydrogels and peptide discovery methods.

Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela

Reinaldo Augusto Valenzuela is a Chilean-born wireless researcher who directs Wireless Communications Research at Nokia Bell Labs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Reiner Kirchheim

Reiner Kirchheim is a German metallurgist at the University of Göttingen, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for work on hydrogen in metals.

Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr.

Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. (1914–1996) was an American extractive metallurgist and Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 and co-inventor of the QSL lead-smelting process.

Reinhold H. Dauskardt

Reinhold H. Dauskardt is a materials scientist who holds the Bowes Professorship at Stanford University, known for thin-film adhesion, perovskite solar cell manufacturing, and skin biomechanics.

Reinhold Rudenberg

Reinhold Rudenberg was a German-born electrical engineer who headed the scientific department at Siemens, filed the first electron microscope patents in 1931, and became a Harvard professor.

Renato Renner

Renato Renner, born 1974 in Lucerne, is a Swiss quantum information scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich, known for quantum cryptography and the 2018 self-consistency argument.

Sep 20, 2026

René A. J. Janssen

René A. J. Janssen is a Dutch physical organic chemist at TU Eindhoven who leads research on organic and perovskite solar cells and won the 2015 Spinoza Prize.

Rene H. Miller

Rene H. Miller (1916–2003) was an American aerospace engineer at MIT and a pioneer of helicopter rotor aeromechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1968.

René Harcourt Miller

René Harcourt Miller (1916–2003) was an American aerospace engineer who spent nearly sixty years at MIT, pioneered helicopter rotor aeromechanics, and headed its aeronautics department.