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Costantino Creton

Costantino Creton is a French materials scientist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris who studies how soft polymers deform, stick, and break, best known for toughening elastomers with sacrificial bonds.

Costas Emmanuel Synolakis

Costas Emmanuel Synolakis is a Greek-American coastal engineer and tsunami scientist at the University of Southern California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Craig A. Grimes

Craig A. Grimes is an American electrical engineer and materials scientist at Penn State known for titanium dioxide nanotube arrays used in solar cells and hydrogen sensing.

Craig Costello

Craig Costello is an Australian cryptographer known for isogeny-based post-quantum cryptography; he helped develop SIKE, which was broken in 2022, and is now a professor at QUT.

Craig Duvall

Craig Duvall is an American biomedical engineer, the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University, known for smart polymer drug delivery and a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Craig E. Philip

Craig E. Philip is an American civil engineer at Vanderbilt University and former CEO of Ingram Barge Company, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Craig Gentry

Craig Gentry is an American cryptographer who constructed the first fully homomorphic encryption scheme in 2009, solving a 1978 open problem, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.

Craig Marks

Craig Marks (1929–2009) was an American automotive engineer who spent 37 years developing powertrain, safety, and emissions technology at Ford, General Motors, and Allied Signal.

Craig R. Barrett

Craig R. Barrett, born in 1939, is an American materials scientist who taught at Stanford before joining Intel in 1974 and rising to CEO and chairman.

Craig S. Criddle

Craig S. Criddle is an environmental engineer and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for the CANDO nitrogen-removal process and for making protein from stranded methane.

Craig Thomas Bowman

Craig Thomas (Tom) Bowman is an American combustion chemist and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University, known for experimental studies of pollutant-forming reactions in flames.

Crawford Greenewalt

Crawford Greenewalt was an American chemical engineer who led DuPont as president from 1948 to 1962, directed its Manhattan Project plutonium work, and studied hummingbird flight.

Cunjiang Yu

Cunjiang Yu is an engineer working on soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics and bioelectronics, and a Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2024.

Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is a roboticist and MIT professor who pioneered social robotics with the expressive robot Kismet and co-founded the consumer robot company Jibo, Inc.

Cynthia Dwork

Cynthia Dwork, born 1958, is an American computer scientist and Harvard professor known for defining differential privacy, foundational work in cryptography, and the 2024 National Medal of Science.

Cyril M. Harris

Cyril M. Harris (1917–2011) was an American acoustical engineer and Columbia University professor who designed or renovated more than 100 concert halls, including the Metropolitan Opera House.

Cyril Stanley Smith

Cyril Stanley Smith (1903–1992) was a British-born American metallurgist and historian of technology who directed preparation of fissionable metals for the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos.

Cyril T. O'Connor

Cyril T. O'Connor is a South African chemical engineer at the University of Cape Town, known for minerals processing research and election to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Cyrus B. Comstock

Cyrus B. Comstock (1831–1910) was an American army engineer, senior aide-de-camp to Ulysses S. Grant, and later director of the Geodetic Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes.

D. A. Dornfeld

D. A. Dornfeld, born David Alan Dornfeld, was an American mechanical engineer and longtime UC Berkeley professor known for acoustic emission monitoring, chemical-mechanical planarization, and sustainable manufacturing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

D. Brainerd Holmes

D. Brainerd Holmes was an American electronics engineer who directed NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight from 1961 to 1963, approved lunar-orbit rendezvous for Apollo, and later led Raytheon.

D. Nathan Meehan

D. Nathan Meehan is an American petroleum engineer, professor at Texas A&M University, and 2015 SPE president elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

D. Roger J. Owen

D. Roger J. Owen, born David Roger Jones Owen, was a Welsh computational mechanician who spent his career at Swansea University and co-founded Rockfield Software Ltd in 1985.

D.Q. Mayne

D.Q. Mayne, also known as David Q. Mayne, was a South African-born control engineer who founded Imperial College London's Control Group and made model predictive control industrially reliable.

Dade Moeller

Dade Moeller (1927–2011) was an American health physicist and environmental engineer who taught at Harvard for 27 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.

Dae Sung Chung

Dae Sung Chung (정대성) is a South Korean chemical engineer and associate professor at POSTECH since 2020, working on organic photodiodes, image sensors, and polymer semiconductors.

Dae-Hyeong Kim

Dae-Hyeong Kim (김대형) is a South Korean professor at Seoul National University known for soft bioelectronics, including skin-like wearables, stretchable conductors, and neural implants built from nanomaterials.

Dago M. de Leeuw

Dago M. de Leeuw is a Dutch scientist in organic electronics who led Philips Research's all-polymer integrated circuits and received the 2015 Gilles Holst Medal.

Dain Sundstrom

Dain Sundstrom is an American software engineer, co-creator of Presto (2012, Facebook, with Traverso, Phillips, and Hwang), now Trino after the 2018 fork; he co-founded Starburst, was its CTO until 2025, and is a Trino BDFL and Trino Software Foundation board member.

Daining Fang (方岱宁)

Daining Fang (方岱宁) is a Chinese solid-mechanics scientist at the Beijing Institute of Technology, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013 and the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022.