Engineers and computer scientists

Dennis M. Bushnell

Dennis M. Bushnell was an American aerospace scientist who spent 60 years at NASA's Langley Research Center, the last 28 as Chief Scientist, retiring in 2023.

Dennis Meier

Dennis Meier is a materials scientist working on ferroelectric domain walls and oxide nanoelectronics, known for half-wave rectification at domain walls and a 2025 cryogenic memristor.

Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) was an American computer scientist at Bell Labs who created the C programming language and co-created Unix with Ken Thompson, winning the 1983 Turing Award.

Derek H. Warner is an engineering researcher who studies metal deformation and fracture through atomic-level simulation, formerly a Cornell professor and PECASE awardee now at the University of Canterbury.

Derek R. Gaston

Derek R. Gaston is an American computational nuclear engineer who founded the MOOSE multiphysics simulation framework at Idaho National Laboratory and received the Presidential Early Career Award.

Derya Baran

Derya Baran is a Turkish materials scientist and associate professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on organic semiconductors for solar cells and thermoelectrics, leading the OMEGA Laboratory.

Desislava Zhekova

Desislava Zhekova is a computational linguist and AI researcher trained at the University of Tübingen, known for UBIU, a language-independent coreference resolution system, and multilingual coreference research.

Devendra Narain Singh

Devendra Narain Singh is an Indian geotechnical engineer and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Bombay, known for environmental geotechnology, laboratory instrumentation, and gas hydrate bearing sediments.

Devin G. Peterson

Devin G. Peterson is an American flavor chemist who studies the chemical stimuli behind taste, smell, and mouthfeel, and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2004.

Dhruv Batra

Dhruv Batra is a computer scientist working in computer vision and embodied AI, formerly a Georgia Tech professor and Meta FAIR Embodied AI leader, now co-founder of Yutori.

Di Wei

Di Wei (魏迪) is a Chinese electrochemist and nanotechnologist who heads the Iontronics Laboratory at the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, known for iontronic energy storage and triboiontronics.

Dianzuo Wang

Dianzuo Wang (Wang Dianzuo, 1934–2023) was a Chinese mineral processing scientist known for flotation theory and reagent design, a member of the Chinese and US engineering academies who died in 2023.

Dick K.P. Yue

Dick K.P. Yue is an American mechanical and ocean engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 and originator of MIT OpenCourseWare.

Dierk Raabe

Dierk Raabe is a German metallurgist, director of the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf since 1999, known for crystal plasticity simulation and green steel.

Dieter Neher

Dieter Neher is a physicist who has been Professor of Soft Matter Physics and Optoelectronics at the University of Potsdam since 1998, studying organic and perovskite solar cells.

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Dileep George

Dileep George is an AI researcher who co-founded Numenta and Vicarious, created the Recursive Cortical Network vision model that broke text CAPTCHAs, and now leads AI at the Astera Institute.

Dimitar P. Filev

Dimitar P. Filev is an engineer who spent 28 years at Ford Motor Company as Senior Henry Ford Technical Fellow and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Dimitri A. Antoniadis

Dimitri A. Antoniadis is a Greek-born electrical engineer and emeritus MIT professor known for pioneering contributions to MOSFETs and silicon process modeling, including the SUPREM simulators.

Dimitri Bertsekas

Dimitri Bertsekas (1942–2026) was a researcher in optimization, dynamic programming, and reinforcement learning, a longtime MIT professor who moved to Arizona State University in 2019 and wrote more than 20 influential textbooks.

Dimitris Metaxas

Dimitris N. Metaxas is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, known for physics-based deformable models in computer vision, medical image analysis, and computer graphics.

Dimos Poulikakos

Dimos Poulikakos (born 1955) is a thermodynamicist who was Professor of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich from 1996 to 2024, having founded its Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies.

Dina Katabi

Dina Katabi is a Syrian-born computer scientist and electrical engineer at MIT known for wireless networking research and for contactless health sensing using radio signals and AI.

Dinesh Manocha

Dinesh Manocha is a computer scientist at the University of Maryland known for work in robotics, computer graphics, and autonomous driving, after 26 years at UNC Chapel Hill.

Dino Di Carlo

Dino Di Carlo is an American bioengineer who chairs the Bioengineering Department at UCLA, known for pioneering inertial microfluidics and lab-on-a-particle technologies such as nanovials, and for co-founding several biotechnology startups.

Dionisios G. Vlachos

Dionisios G. Vlachos is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the University of Delaware, a founder of multiscale modeling in catalysis and plastics upcycling research.

Dionysios D. Dionysiou

Dionysios D. Dionysiou (Greek: Διονύσιος Δ. Διονυσίου; 1966–2023) was a Cypriot-born environmental engineer and University of Cincinnati professor known for pioneering sulfate-radical advanced oxidation processes for water treatment.

Dipan Kundu

Dipan Kundu is an Associate Professor of chemical engineering at UNSW Sydney known for aqueous rechargeable zinc batteries, including a high-capacity design published in Nature Energy in 2016.

Diran Apelian

Diran Apelian is an American materials engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for solidification processing, powder metallurgy, and the aluminum alloys in the Audi A8.