Engineers and computer scientists

David M. Kelley

David M. Kelley, born in 1951, is an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the design consultancy IDEO and Stanford's d.school, and led design of the first Apple Computer mouse.

David M. Maddox

David M. Maddox was a United States Army four-star general and operations research researcher who led the post-Cold War drawdown of U.S. Army Europe from 1992 to 1994.

David Malan (computer scientist)

David J. Malan is an American computer scientist and Harvard professor best known as lead instructor of CS50, Harvard's introductory computer science course, its largest.

David Mareček

David Mareček is a Czech natural language processing researcher and assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, known for unsupervised dependency parsing and neural network interpretation.

David Messerschmitt

David Messerschmitt, born 1945, is an American electrical engineer and Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1999.

David Middleton (physicist)

David Middleton (1920–2008) was an American physicist who founded statistical communication theory, developed the matched filter, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

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David Mitlin

David Mitlin is an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for supercapacitor electrodes made from hemp waste and sodium battery anodes.

David N. Seidman

David N. Seidman is an American materials scientist, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus at Northwestern, known for atomic-scale characterization of metals and alloys by atom-probe tomography.

David Okrent (1922–2012) was an American nuclear engineer and physicist, a UCLA professor and pioneer of fast reactor safety and probabilistic risk assessment elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.

David P. Arnold

David P. Arnold is a University of Florida electrical engineer working on magnetic microsystems, MEMS sensors, and miniaturized power systems; he received a PECASE award in 2008.

David P. Billington

David P. Billington (1927–2018) was an American engineer and historian of engineering who taught at Princeton for fifty years and originated the discipline of structural art.

David Parrillo

David Parrillo is an American chemical engineer at Dow who led development of the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

David Patterson (computer scientist)

David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the Berkeley RISC project, co-invented RAID, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.

David Pointcheval

David Pointcheval is a French cryptographer, a CNRS researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris known for the forking lemma and repairing the RSA-OAEP security proof.

David Richerby

David Richerby is a British computer scientist at the University of Essex who works on the complexity of counting problems and won the 2021 Gödel Prize.

David Roger Jones Owen

David Roger Jones Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh computational mechanician at Swansea University known for finite and discrete element methods, who founded Rockfield Software and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.

David Rumelhart

David Rumelhart (1942–2011) was an American cognitive psychologist who, with Geoffrey Hinton and Ronald Williams, published the 1986 back-propagation paper that became the training method for deep learning.

David S. Johnson

David S. Johnson (1945–2016) was an American computer scientist who laid the foundations of approximation algorithms in his 1973 MIT thesis, coauthored Computers and Intractability, and won the 2010 Knuth Prize.

David S. Lewis

David S. Lewis (1917–2003) was an American aeronautical engineer and aerospace executive who led McDonnell Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, and General Dynamics, directing the F-4 Phantom II and F-16 programs.

David S. Potter

David S. Potter, born 1925, was an American physicist in underwater acoustics who served as Under Secretary of the Navy and later as a General Motors vice president.

David Scott Sholl

David Scott Sholl is an American chemical engineer known for computational modeling of chemical separations and carbon dioxide capture, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

David Tai Leong

David Tai Leong (David T. Leong) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the National University of Singapore who works at the interface of nanotechnology and biology.

David Thomas Allen

David Thomas Allen is an American chemical and environmental engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

David Thompson (electrical engineer)

David A. Thompson is an American electrical engineer who led IBM research on thin-film and magnetoresistive recording heads underlying modern hard-disk drives, from 1968 to 2000.

David Tse

David Tse is an information theorist and electrical engineer who holds a professorship at Stanford University. He invented the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm used in 3G and 4G cellular networks.

David Turnbull (physical chemist)

David Turnbull (1915–2007) was an American physical chemist at General Electric and Harvard whose work on crystal nucleation and glass formation founded modern solidification science.

David U. Furrer

David U. Furrer is an American aerospace materials engineer at Pratt & Whitney, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for computational modeling of aerospace alloys.

David V. Anderson

David V. Anderson is an American electrical engineer and Georgia Tech professor known for embedded signal processing research and for receiving the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

David W. Fowler

David W. Fowler (David Wayne Fowler) is an American civil engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.