Engineers and computer scientists

Adam D. Smith

Adam D. Smith is an American theoretical computer scientist and Boston University professor, co-inventor of differential privacy, honored with the Gödel Prize in 2017 and the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award in 2021.

Adam J. Engler

Adam J. Engler is an American bioengineer and professor at UC San Diego whose 2006 Cell paper showed that matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage specification.

Adam James Ellison

Adam James Ellison is a glass scientist and Corporate Fellow at Corning Incorporated, co-author of a widely cited 2009 viscosity model for glass-forming liquids and later designer of synthetic collagen-mimetic peptides.

Adam P. Eisele

Adam P. Eisele is an American air quality engineer who measured VOC emissions from oil and gas well pads and received a 2011 PECASE award at the EPA.

Adam Pilchak

Adam Pilchak is an American materials scientist known for research on titanium alloy fatigue at the Air Force Research Laboratory and a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Adam Steltzner

Adam Steltzner is an American aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the sky crane team that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012.

Adam Weber

Adam Z. Weber is an American chemical engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who leads modeling of fuel cells, electrolyzers, and flow batteries, and received a 2012 PECASE award.

Adel F. Sarofim

Adel F. Sarofim, also known as Adel Fares Sarofim, was a chemical engineer born in Cairo who taught at MIT and advanced combustion and pollutant research.

Adi Shamir

Adi Shamir, born 1952 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli cryptographer at the Weizmann Institute who co-invented RSA in 1977 and received the 2002 Turing Award.

Aditya D. Mohite

Aditya D. Mohite is a materials scientist and engineer at Rice University who works on layered 2D halide perovskite semiconductors for solar cells and solar fuels.

Adolf D. May

Adolf D. May (1927–2023) was a traffic engineer at UC Berkeley known for pioneering freeway ramp metering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.

Adolf Slaby

Adolf Slaby (1849–1913) was a German electrical engineer, professor at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, who built a German wireless telegraphy system with Count Georg von Arco and co-founded Telefunken in 1903.

Adrian Bowyer

Adrian Bowyer, born in London in 1952, is a British engineer who founded the RepRap Project, the open-source self-replicating 3D printer credited with starting the low-cost 3D-printer revolution.

Adrian Chavez

Adrian Chavez is an American computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories who works on cybersecurity for the power grid and received a PECASE award from President Obama.

Adrian E. Raftery

Adrian E. Raftery (born 1955) is an Irish statistician at the University of Washington known for Bayesian model selection, model-based clustering, and probabilistic population forecasting.

Aeriel Leonard

Aeriel D.M. Leonard is an American materials scientist and assistant professor at Ohio State University who studies fatigue in lightweight alloys and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Ahmad Al Rashdan

Ahmad Al Rashdan is a nuclear engineer at Idaho National Laboratory who received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for pioneering AI use in the nuclear industry.

Ahmad Khalil

Ahmad S. Khalil is a synthetic biologist and biomedical engineer, Professor at Boston University, whose lab designs molecular circuits in cells and studies how antibiotics kill bacteria.

Ahmet Kusoglu

Ahmet Kusoglu is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies ion-conducting polymers for hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers, winning the 2025 PECASE award.

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Ahn Jong-hyun

Ahn Jong-hyun (안종현) is a South Korean materials scientist known for graphene transparent electrodes and flexible electronics, and has been a distinguished professor at Yonsei University in Seoul since 2015.

Ajay P. Malshe

Ajay P. Malshe is an American nanomanufacturing researcher, Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Ajayan Vinu

Ajayan Vinu is an Indian-born Australian nanomaterials researcher known for creating the world's first mesoporous carbon nitrides, and Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle since 2017.

Ajit P. Yoganathan

Ajit P. Yoganathan is a biomedical engineer who founded the Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Lab at Georgia Tech in 1979. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Akhil Datta-Gupta

Akhil Datta-Gupta is an American petroleum engineer at Texas A&M University known for developing streamline simulation of fluid flow in reservoirs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Akhilesh K. Gaharwar

Akhilesh K. Gaharwar is an American biomedical engineer and professor at Texas A&M University working on 2D nanomaterials for drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and 3D bioprinting.

Akihisa Inoue

Akihisa Inoue (井上明久) is a Japanese materials scientist who founded the field of bulk metallic glasses and served as president of Tohoku University from 2006 to 2012.

Al F. Tasch Jr.

Al F. Tasch Jr. (1941–2004) was an American semiconductor engineer at Texas Instruments, Motorola, and UT Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Alain Karma

Alain Karma is a physicist and materials scientist, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University since 1988, known for phase-field modeling of alloy solidification and the helical crack-front instability.

Alain Tapp

Alain Tapp, born in Montreal in 1969, is a Canadian computer scientist and full professor at the Université de Montréal working in quantum information, cryptography, and machine learning fairness.