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Fredo Durand

Fredo Durand, also known as Frédo Durand, is a French computer graphics researcher who is the Amar Bose Professor of Computing at MIT, known for computational photography and Halide.

Fredric Raichlen

Fredric Raichlen, known as Fred Raichlen, was an American coastal engineer and Caltech professor known for laboratory and numerical studies of tsunamis and harbor resonance.

Frieder Seible

Frieder Seible (born 1952) is a structural engineer known for seismic retrofit of bridges and blast-resistant design, and Dean Emeritus of UC San Diego's engineering school.

Friedrich C. Simmel

Friedrich C. Simmel is a professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich working in DNA nanotechnology, known for a nanoscale robotic arm controlled by electric fields.

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845–1904) was a German engineer at Siemens & Halske who invented the drum armature in 1872 and the Hefner lamp, Germany's light standard.

Fritz Ingerslev

Fritz Ingerslev (1912–1994) was a Danish civil engineer and acoustics expert, known as Denmark's 'noise-professor', who led the Acoustics Laboratory and chaired international noise control bodies.

Fritz Rothe

Fritz Rothe was a German industrial chemist who joined Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro in 1897 and in 1898 developed the calcium carbide route to calcium cyanamide fertilizer.

Fu‐Gen Wu

Fu-Gen Wu (吴富根, born 1983) is a Chinese biomedical engineer and full professor at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for work on polyphenol-containing nanoparticles and hydrogel-based drug delivery.

Fudong Han

Fudong Han is a battery and electrochemistry researcher and associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for showing that electronic conductivity in solid electrolytes causes lithium dendrite formation.

Fujio Matsuda

Fujio Matsuda (松田 富士男) was a Hawaiʻi-born civil engineer, professor, and the ninth president of the University of Hawaiʻi from 1974 to 1984, the first Asian American to lead a major American university.

Fumitake Yoshida

Fumitake Yoshida (吉田文武, 1913–2007) was a Japanese chemical engineer and Kyoto University professor known for research on mass transfer, gas absorption, and bubble columns, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

G. David Forney

G. David Forney is an American information and coding theorist at MIT and Codex, known for concatenated codes, the trellis-diagram Viterbi algorithm, and commercially successful high-speed modems.

G. Paul Willhite

G. Paul Willhite was an American petroleum engineer at the University of Kansas known for enhanced oil recovery research and election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Gabor C. Temes

Gabor C. Temes is a Hungarian-born electrical engineer, professor at Oregon State University, known for pioneering work on switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data conversion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Gabriel Chike Ejebe

Gabriel Chike Ejebe is an American electric power systems engineer and Senior Project Manager at OATI in Minneapolis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Gabriel Voisin

Gabriel Voisin (1880–1973) was a French aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer whose biplanes set early records and whose firm built thousands of WWI bombers before he turned to making Avions Voisin luxury automobiles.

Galen B. Schubauer

Galen B. Schubauer (1904–1992) was an American fluid mechanician who spent his career at the National Bureau of Standards and gave the first conclusive experimental verification of Tollmien–Schlichting wave theory.

Gang Chen

Gang Chen (陳剛) is a mechanical engineer, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor at MIT since 2009, known for nanoscale heat transfer, thermoelectrics, and solar steam generation, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gang Han

Gang Han is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biotechnology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for persistent luminescence and upconversion nanoparticles used in bioimaging and therapy.

Gang Hua

Gang Hua is a computer vision researcher and IEEE Fellow who has held research roles at Microsoft, Stevens Institute of Technology, Wormpex AI Research, and Amazon.

Gang Wu (energy researcher)

Gang Wu is an energy researcher known for atomically dispersed iron–nitrogen–carbon catalysts that could replace platinum in fuel cells, and a Washington University in St. Louis professor since 2024.

Gano Dunn

Gano Dunn (1870–1953) was an American electrical engineer who headed the J. G. White Engineering Corporation for four decades, led Cooper Union's trustees, and received the 1937 Edison Medal.

Gao Liu

Gao Liu is a Senior Scientist and group leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for conductive polymer binders for silicon electrodes, and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

Gao Qing Lu

Gao Qing (Max) Lu (逯高清) is a Chinese-born Australian chemical engineer and nanomaterials researcher, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong since May 2025 after leading the University of Surrey.

Gareth Thomas (Welsh materials scientist)

Gareth Thomas (1932–2014) was a Welsh-born materials scientist and electron microscopist who spent his career at UC Berkeley and founded the National Center for Electron Microscopy.

Garrick E. Louis

Garrick E. Louis is a Trinidad and Tobago-born American engineer and professor at the University of Virginia who researches how communities sustain drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste services.

Gary Hodes

Gary Hodes is an Israeli materials scientist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for semiconductor thin films, chemical solution deposition, and solar cells.

Gary J. Cheng

Gary J. Cheng is a mechanical and materials engineer and professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University, known for laser shock imprinting of metals at the nanoscale.

Gary J. Klein

Gary J. Klein is an American forensic structural engineer and executive at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Gary L. Borman

Gary L. Borman (1932–2005) was an American mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for pioneering engine simulation.